Thailand Power Development Plan 2015-2036
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of power generation from biomass would be 2,500 MW. In line with the policies of the<br />
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (<strong>Thailand</strong>), to increase the plantation area of sugar<br />
cane and palm, as well as to raise productivity of cassava from 3.5 to 7 tons per Rai per year<br />
could increase the potential of 1,500 MW. In addition, area by area zoning and power<br />
generation capacity limitation measures were adopted to prevent challenges from the<br />
previous plan. It is expected that technology improvement would build up the<br />
competitiveness of renewable energy over that of conventional energy especially LNG. The<br />
main target of the new AEDP is to increase the portion of renewable energy generation from<br />
currently 8 percent to 20 percent of the total power requirement in <strong>2036</strong> which accounts<br />
for 19,634.4 MW as shown in Table 3.4<br />
Table 3.4 the Alternative Energy <strong>Development</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> in year <strong>2036</strong> (MW)<br />
Year Solar Wind Hydro Waste Biomass Biogas<br />
Energy<br />
crops<br />
Total<br />
2014 1,298.5 224.5 3,048.4 65.7 2,541.8 311.5 - 7,490.4 1/<br />
<strong>2036</strong> 6,000.0 3,002.0 3,282.4 500.0 5,570.0 600.0 680.0 19,634.4 1/<br />
Remark: 1/ Installed capacity<br />
The portion of renewable energy for power generation has been increasing;<br />
therefore, the development of the PDP<strong>2015</strong> must be in line with the AEDP. <strong>Power</strong> system<br />
theories should be adopted to prevent the reverse power and to balance supply and<br />
demand so that power system reliability will be reinforced. Frameworks adopted in order to<br />
address the mentioned issues are as follows:<br />
1. Department of Alternative Energy <strong>Development</strong> and Efficiency (DEDE) being<br />
the organization responsible for considering potential of each renewable<br />
energy resource by area in order to define purchase amount and the<br />
timeframe<br />
2. Considering transmission system availability by calculating the existing power<br />
demand and quantity of the power purchase from renewable energy of each<br />
high voltage substation in order to reduce losses in the transmission system<br />
and to define purchase amount<br />
3. Considering distribution system availability by calculating the existing power<br />
demand and quantity of power purchase from renewable energy of each<br />
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