Criteria for new community power plants to be ready this month
Energy Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow said his ministry is in the process of preparing guidelines and criteria related to community power plants and the report should be ready this month.
He said these new power plants should promote the cultivation of new energy crops, increase jobs and generate income.
The report should be handed over to the National Energy Policy Council before the end of this month and the pilot 100 to 150 megawatt plant should be operating by the end of the year.
“Power plants should be placed in an area where 80 per cent of the land is devoted to energy crops and the remainder to fast-growing plants such as Napier grass and Earleaf acacia,” Supattanapong said.
He added that energy production businesses will have to adapt to new conditions once community power plants kick off.
