LAOS: Electricity Facts

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Electricity Facts Laos (hydropower, dam)

Certain members of the foreign media have hailed Laos as the “battery of Southeast Asia,” with one of the nation’s economic development strategies centered on the export of electricity to Thailand and other neighboring countries.

With 42 power plants now operational, the country is poised to realize its electricity ambitions. With a current installed capacity of approximately 6,000MW, the Lao government expects to achieve 14,000MW by 2020.

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Laos plans to install:
54 more electricity transmission lines and build another 16 substations by 2020

Current number of high voltage electricity transmission lines: 53,000km

Current number of high voltage electricity substations: 53 substations

Transmission lines that connect with neighbouring countries: 14 carry power to Thailand, 2 to Vietnam, 1 to China, 2 to Cambodia, and 1 to Myanmar.

Households that have access to electricity: 92 percent of households nationwide

Alternative renewable energy sources being considered: solar power, biomass and wind turbines (12,789 families – 1.15 percent of all families across the country – are using solar power)

Current number of operational power plants: 42 (with installed capacity of 6,391MW; generating about 33,822 GWh annually (primarily for export)

Operation of power plants: 15 are managed by the Government (EDL and EDL-GEN) with an installed capacity of 738.5MW; 27 are managed by independent power producers and have an installed capacity of 5,652.45MW

Types of power plants: 39 hydropower plants, 1 coal-burn lignite plant, and 2 sugarcane-powered plants

Number of power plants soon to be completed in 2017: 12 (expected installed capacity of 468.45MW and will generate electricity at an average of 1,872.92 GWh per year)

Number of power plants soon to be completed by 2020: 53 hydropower plants under construction or in the planning stage, including those set to be completed this year; there will be more than 90 hydropower plants in Laos with a combined installed capacity of almost 14,000MW by 2020.

Source: Vientiane Times

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  1. Disgrass to ordinsty userd because they make a huge mistake same as an overnight mistsjd on the kip when thay mixed it up with the kyat my niece payed 790000 kip this mknth which was three times more than the prviius month whsts going on .i say tourists should stay away especially when hotel prices double to soak up this silly increase duo to the governments lack of technical ability