Sunday, March 13, 2011

News of Micro hydropower projects in Thailand

Huay-poo-ling children in the school

The hydro power plant for village size “Huay Poo Ling Project” locate at Jomthong, Chiang-mai. The size of production is 22kW. It is operated by co-operation from Sub-district Administration Organization (SAO) of Bann-luang sub-district, Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE), Department of National park Wild life and Plant Conservation (DNP)and Energy for Environment foundation (E for E) under the financial supported from United Nations Development Programme. This plant has capacity to provide the electricity to local more than 100 houses including village’s school, temple, church and the forest control. However with the limited of finance for construction so in the beginning, E for E had constructed the electricity transfer system and household devices for 51 houses. And now it does still under financing for expand the system in second phrase to 66 houses. This “Huay Poo Ling Project” shows the co-operation of central and local government sectors, International organization, village people and E for E in the development to the area that far from normal electricity system. Moreover, the local people have seen the importance of reserving  Hill evergreen forest which is the source for power plant and support the distance learning via satellite which school has money to install but no electricity for other electric appliances.


Ta-po-poo school

The micro hydro power plant, “Ta-po-poo Project” located at Tha-song-yang district, Tak. The size of production is at 12 Kw. It’s operated by the Border Green Energy Team (BGET) which got the money supported by E for E and the embassy of Australia in Thailand. The power plant can provide the electricity for local people in total for 60 houses which is enough for the household’s usage and generate the productivity of local handcraft in the evening. With the character of area which is hard to transport the device and electricity polls but with the united in action and spirit of local people, the construction went well.  The local community has set up the village committee to collect the electricity’s charge and keep the power plant to be sustained. This power plant has been in service since January 2009.

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