Cabinet approves Egat plan for Bt33.9-bn power generation unit at Bang Pakong plant
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The Cabinet on Tuesday gave the nod to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat) plan to construct a new electricity-generating unit at an investment cost of Bt33.942 billion at its Bang Pakong power plant in Chachoengsao province.
The new unit will replace units 1 and 2, which were retired at the facility in 2014.
It will have a capacity of 1,300 megawatts, compared to the combined 1,050MW of the two retired units.
The new unit will start feeding power to the system in April 2019.
Construction is expected to take 34 months to complete after being approved by the National Environment Committee.
