Deputy Energy Minister Surasak Srisak said the government plans to include the energy storage issue in the latest revision of its national renewable development plan (PDP:2015-36). That move comes as the Energy Ministry has been monitoring the issue for some time, having found that it should promote energy storage technology alongside plans to promote renewable energy to help mitigate potential blackouts and other problems affecting the country's energy grid. "Clean energy is good for everyone but it should come with efficient power storage systems to ensure the efficiency of the renewable power sources, as well as the future of renewable power," said Mr Twarath. Solar power made up 3,000MW of operational renewable power, followed by biomass at 2,873MW, biogas (600MW), wind farms (488MW), with hydro power accounting for the rest. "Energy storage has been in the experimental phase in Thailand for many years and now it is coming into commercial operations," said Mr Sumet.

Source: Bangkok Post August 02, 2017 00:00 UTC