Thailand
TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Estimated Available Energy Sources | ||||||
Fossil Fuels | Nuclear | Renewables | ||||
Solid | Liquid | Gas | Uranium | Hydro* | Other Renewable* |
|
Total amount in specific units** | 15.15 million tonnes | 90.53 million bbls | 1,405.84 billion scf | n.a. | 3,500 MW | 1,593 MW |
Total amount in exajoules (EJ) | 163.1 | 530.57 | 1,446.25 | n.a. |
TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||||||
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2013 | 2015* | 2000 to 2015* | ||||||
Energy consumption** | |||||||||||
- Total | 1 254.84 | 2 403.71 | 3 758.89 | 4 213.91 | 4 345.56 | 4.03 | |||||
- Solids*** | 163.42 | 330.14 | 653.81 | 659.13 | 735.53 | 5.49 | |||||
- Liquids | 806.63 | 1 212.85 | 1 375.57 | 1 537.08 | 1 603.45 | 1.88 | |||||
- Gases | 236.90 | 795.40 | 1 653.26 | 1 921.68 | 1 920.16 | 6.05 | |||||
- Nuclear | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
- Hydro | 47.90 | 65.32 | 76.25 | 96.02 | 86.42 | 1.88 | |||||
- Other Renewables |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
Energy production | |||||||||||
- Total | 518.85 | 1 226.16 | 2 082.17 | 2 275.69 | 2 142.99 | 3.73 | |||||
- Solids*** | 149.77 | 217.05 | 209.11 | 196.18 | 161.58 | –2.01 | |||||
- Liquids | 86.71 | 220.95 | 492.99 | 490.92 | 500.3 | 5.54 | |||||
- Gases | 236.90 | 733.52 | 1 330.01 | 1 537.94 | 1 446.23 | 4.57 | |||||
- Nuclear | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
- Hydro | 45.47 | 54.64 | 50.06 | 50.65 | 34.88 | –3.01 | |||||
- Other Renewables |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
Net import (import–export) | |||||||||||
- Total | 741.31 | 1 434.36 | 2 109.54 | 2 360.72 | 2 614.45 | 4.02 |
TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2016* | 2000 to 2016* | |
Capacity of electrical plants (MW(e)) | |||||||
- Thermal–EGAT | 1 977 | 5 755 | 12 964 | 11 569.40 | 12 060 | 12 887 | –0.04 |
- IPP | 3 456 | 12 152 | 14 767 | 14 949 | 9.59 | ||
- SPP (Co-generation) | 1 433 | 2 182 | 3 919 | 4 749 | 7.78 | ||
- Hydro | 1 269 | 2 236 | 2 880 | 3 488 | 3 496 | 3 500 | 1.23 |
- Purchased | 340 | 1 588 | 3 387 | 3 878 | 16.43 | ||
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Renewable and other | 0.53 | 29 | 1 217 | 1 593 | 64.96 | ||
- Total | 3 246 | 7 992 | 21 073.53 | 31 008.40 | 38 845 | 41 556 | 4.34 |
Electricity production (GWh) | |||||||
- Thermal–EGAT | 12 347 | 37 614 | 61 213.76 | 65 906.59 | 66 239 | 64 208 | 0.3 |
- IPP | 18 212.92 | 74 448.13 | 70 533 | 67 901 | 8.57 | ||
- SPP | 10 175.54 | 13 897.30 | 23 906 | 28 297 | 6.6 | ||
- Hydro–EGAT | 1 653 | 4 858 | 5 891.44 | 5 325.20 | 4 097 | 3 521 | –3.17 |
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Renewable and other | 527 | 2 266 | 4 355 | 5 047 | 15.17 | ||
- Purchased | 753 | 717 | 2,966.25 | 7,253.78 | 14,247 | 19,825 | 12.61 |
- Total | 14,754 | 43,190 | 98,986.91 | 169,097 | 183,377 | 188,799 | 4.12 |
Total electricity consumption (GWh) | 13,601 | 38,203 | 88,021 | 149,320 | 174,833.71 | 182,847.43 | 4.68 |
TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2016* | |
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) | 22.29 | 38.84 | 58.84 | 66.11 | n.a. |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita) | 678.56 | 1 418 | 2 337.51 | 2 659.88 | 2 773.36 |
Electricity production/Energy production (%) | 29.97 | 28.41 | 29.24 | 30.81 | n.a. |
Nuclear/Total electricity (%) | |||||
Ratio of external dependency (%)* | 59.07 | 59.67 | 56.12 | 60.16 | n.a. |
TABLE 5. PLANNED NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Station/Project Name | Type | Capacity (MW) | Expected Construction Start Year | Expected Commercial Year |
EGAT Nuclear Power Plant #1 | LWR | 1 000 | 2029 | 2035 |
EGAT Nuclear Power Plant #2 | LWR | 1 000 | 2030 | 2036 |