The overall plan will focus on four types of power plants: mini-hydropower plants with a combined 170 MW of capacity, waste power plants with a combined 15 MW of capacity, wind power plants with a combined 65 MW of capacity, and solar power plants with a combined 8 MW of capacity.
EGAT divides its plan for developing renewable energy into three phases. In the first phase, from last year to 2012, it aims to create 102 MW of renewable energy, of which 20.5 MW will be from wind power. During the period, the utility plans to install 3 MW from solar power. EGAT will also construct six mini-hydropower plants with combined capacity of 78.7 MW. The overall cost of the project development in this phase is THB 7.4 billion ($216 million).
In a second phase from 2013 to 2017, it aims to install a total of 78 MW of renewable energy generation capacity. Of this, 13 MW will be generated by wind power, 2 MW by solar power, 7.5 MW by waste power and 55.5 MW from mini-hydropower. The total cost of this phase will amount to THB 7.9 billion ($231 million).
In the final phase, EGAT plans to install 79 MW, 32 MW of which will be from wind power, 3 MW from solar, 7.5 MW from waste and 36 MW from mini-hydropower. The total cost of this final phase will be THB 6.7 billion ($196 million).
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