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The government has ambitions to become the “Battery of Southeast Asia” by exploiting its impressive hydropower potential. By 2020-2021, an extra 50 hydropower plants with a total capacity of 5,606 MW will be in service. A total output of 27,024 GWh is anticipated and by 2025, Laos expects to export 14,600 MW to neighboring countries.
With 42 power plants now operational, Laos is poised to realise its electricity ambitions. With a current installed capacity of approximately 6,000MW, the Lao government expects to achieve 14,000MW by the end of this year. Thailand is not on its own with massive development and expansion putting pressure on the older ways of life.
The agreement enabled Thailand to buy power from Laos, which generates surplus electricity from dams along the Mekong river, to be sold to Malaysia. Now, the project is set to transition to the second phase under which Thailand will increase the amount of electricity that it buys from Laos from 100 MW to 300 MW.
Today, around 80 percent of the power generated in Laos is sold to neighboring Thailand and Vietnam, accounting for 30 percent of the country’s exports by value. Laos started power exports to Singapore in 2022 and completed building transmission infrastructure for selling electricity to Cambodia in 2023.
Laos’ dams will help Southeast Asia meet its growing energy demand without adding to its carbon emissions; indeed, hydropower accounts for the largest share of global renewable energy capacity, helping countries reduce their reliance on planet-warming fossil fuels. The chart above shows that hydropower is the top renewable energy source.
Current status As of end 2019, Laos had an installed power generation capacity of nearly 9,972 MW, of which over 80 per cent or 8,019 MW was contributed by hydropower. Coal-based power accounted for 19 per cent share (1,878 MW) while the rest was accounted for by biomass and solar (75 MW).
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