Achieving Burma?s Energy Goal Will Be ?Very Tough?: Report

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"...Burma faces a ?very tough task? to achieve the Ministry of Electric Power?s ambition to develop a modern national energy infrastructure in the next 15 years, an industry report said. The ministry has outlined plans to increase Burma?s power-generating capacity to nearly 25,000 megawatts by 2030. At present, the national capacity is only 4,360 megawatts—barely one third of the capacity of tiny Singapore, which has a population of 5.3 million. ?Asia?s new economic frontier Myanmar, seeking to attract tens of billions of dollars in investment, is also one of the darkest places in the world with an electricity capacity which reaches only one in five of the estimated 60 million population,? said Asia Power Monitor, an international energy industry weekly newspaper. ?The Ministry of Energy has outlined vague plans for 40 power projects across the country to achieve the 2030 generating target—which is less than neighboring Thailand?s today with a similar population,? it said this week..."

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William Boot

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"The Irrawaddy"

Date of Publication: 

2014-07-11

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2014-07-12

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English

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