Solar Power in Cambodia

Posted on February 23, 2013 by administrator

 

Solar Power in Cambodia

Included in a global Bank-funded task, the photo voltaic driven electrical power program has been created within Cambodia’s provinces such as Ratanakiri, Preah Vihear, as well as Siem Enjoy.

More than 10, 000 photo voltaic house techniques have been set up. Formerly villagers depended upon energy through vehicle electric batteries as well as gas machines to provide electrical power with regard to illumination within their homes.


The subsidy in the Globe financial institution associated with $100, decreases the price of the actual sections in order to $160, that the clients will need to repay on the four 12 months time period.

Cambodia does not have the actual hydro-electric energy channels such as Laos or even possibility of blowing wind energy such as Vietnam, therefore solar energy seems to be the only real option with regard to green power era.

The present task is actually the main government’s programs to supply just about all families along with use of electrical power through 2030, based on the spokesman.

Financial assistance with regard to higher electrical power utilization had been eliminated within This summer 2012, based on the spokesman for that Electrical power Expert associated with Cambodia. Clients utilizing a lot more than two hundred kw/hrs monthly associated with electrical power won’t get a 100 in order to two hundred riel subsidy.

Electrical power within Cambodia is actually costly when compared with nearby Vietnam, which range from 720 riel in order to four thousand riel for each kw/hr. Within Vietnam the price is actually in between a hundred and fifty as well as two hundred riel for each kw/hr. This particular higher price associated with electrical power is actually removing international expense, based on Hiroshi Suzuki, BOSS from the Company Investigation Start associated with Cambodia.

Asia’s biggest solar energy train station.

The actual western Indian native condition associated with Gugarat hosts Asia’s greatest solar power task.
It’s distribute throughout 1, two hundred hectares associated with leave and may provide 214 megawatts associated with electrical power, which makes it larger than the actual Golmud Photo voltaic Task within The far east that creates two hundred megawatts.

The actual Indian native Federal government and also the Asian countries Improvement Financial institution tend to be funding the actual building associated with tranny outlines through hydro energy channels within Laos in order to Kratie land within Cambodia, connecting into the nationwide grid.

Tenders with regard to building tend to be planned had been required within Oct 2012. This particular plan whenever total ought to lead to less expensive electrical power prices with regard to Cambodia.

Electrical power Era.

Many of the electrical power provided within Cambodia originates from Vietnam or even Thailand.
The fundamental cost is all about 832 riel for each kilowatt hr. That’s regarding twenty one cents/kwh. A few home places may entry the actual provide only at that cost, however numerous Cambodians tend to be given by middlemen. These people purchase the electrical power in the federal government as well as re-sell this for any revenue, generally the 100% mark-up, occasionally much more. Within leased office space, this really is typical, using the landlords getting their own tenants 1500 riel/ kwh.

If you’re considering leasing a condo or even toned within Cambodia, examine the buying price of the actual resources, (electrical power, drinking water as well as junk selection) or else you may be set for the surprise once the expenses needs to be compensated.

Additionally the actual price provided in order to and also the is actually greater than in order to Cambodians. We don’t know the precise particulars, however the landlady obtained an excellent simply because your woman did not inform the actual electrical power providers which your woman had been leasing the actual office space in order to and also the.

 

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China Loans Cash for Irrigation, Power Projects

By Hul Reaksmey - August 12, 2013

Finance Minister Keat Chhon has signed a deal with China’s ambassador to Cambodia to secure a concessional loan of $121 million to fund irrigation and power projects.

In the latest promise of cash from Cambodia’s biggest donor, Chi­na will fund a power transmission line con­necting Phnom Penh with Bavet City in Svay Rieng province, according to a report from state newswire Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP).



AKP reported that the loan, which was officially signed with new Chi­nese Ambassador Bu Jianguo on Friday, would also go toward the Achang irrigation system in Kampong Chhnang province, but did not specify how much of the money would go on each of the projects. Ngy Tayi, secretary of state at the Finance Ministry, confirmed that the agreement for the loan was signed on Friday.

“This is the result of long talks with the Chinese side,” he said, referring questions to the official report.
Svay Rieng provincial governor Chieng Am welcomed the agreement, but said he did not have any details about the power transmission plan.

“We gratefully welcome this good news, because we will have more electricity to consume in our province,” Mr. Am said.

The loan, agreed within two weeks after the July 28 national election, is just the latest sum of cash from China to Cambodia during the rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has cast himself as a close ally of the emerging superpower in recent years. Just this month, Mr. Hun Sen said a threat that the U.S. may sever ties with Cambodia could be disregarded since China would meet any unmet foreign assistance needs.
Critics have said loans, aid and military assistance have left Cam­bodia subservient to China......

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Halt building of dams on Lower Mekong: NGOs

Tue, 6 August 2013

Amelia Woodside, Phnom Penh Post

More than 140 NGOs have called on the Mekong River Commission to freeze all hydropower damn construction in the Lower Mekong River.

“The degration of fish production in the river can’t be replaced and the blockage of sediment will affect the fisheries resources in the river’s flood plain areas and the Great Lake of Cambodia,” notes the open letter, released late last month and signed by 149 international and local groups including Adhoc, the 3S Rivers Protection Network, and the Fisheries Action Coalition Team.

“[We] would like to request to the four MRC governments of the Lower Mekong mainstream not to construct any hydropower dam in the Mekong mainstream now or in the future,” the letter says.
An estimated 80 per cent of the 60 million people living in the Lower Mekong River rely on it as a source of livelihood and food.

Clearly, the stakes are high said Youk Senglong, a program director at FACT, who pointed out that there has been insufficient research by the companies involved in delineating the impacts of the dam construction.
“We need a more high-quality impact assessment, which is why we asked [in the open letter] for a delay in construction,” Senglong told the Post.

Though environmental groups have lambasted their construction and a 1995 Mekong Treaty requires consensus from the four affected governments, hydropower projects on the river’s mainstream have been moving forward.

Construction has begun on Laos’ controversial Xayaburi dam, while the second of 11 planned mainstream dams – the Don Sahong – has also recently seen development.

Te Navuth, secretary-general of the Cambodia National Mekong Committee, said no notification of any preliminary building at Don Sahong dam had been confirmed or received by the committee.

“We are issuing a request to the committee’s Laos representatives” for further information about any preliminary building at Don Sahong dam, he said.

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