Thailand
TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Estimated Available Energy Sources 2017 | ||||||
Fossil Fuels | Nuclear | Renewables | ||||
Solid | Liquid | Gas | Uranium | Hydro | Other renewable |
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Total amount in specific units* | 16.26 | 87.53 | 1320.18 | n.a. | 3500 | 1764 |
Total amount in exajoules (EJ) | 173.5 | 513.04 | 1358.13 | n.a. |
TABLE 2. ENERGY STATISTICS
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||||||
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2013 | 2016* | 2000–2016* | ||||||
Energy consumption** | |||||||||||
- Total | 1997.45 | 3804.57 | 5764.07 | 6486.63 | 6986.59 | 3.87 | |||||
- Solids*** | 172.34 | 439.46 | 1092.97 | 1152.97 | 1312.20 | 7.08 | |||||
- Liquids | 1568.28 | 2476.04 | 2668.46 | 2989.65 | 3231.73 | 1.68 | |||||
- Gases | 236.9 | 857.37 | 1957.59 | 2279.74 | 2359.16 | 6.53 | |||||
- Nuclear | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
- Hydro | 19.93 | 31.70 | 45.05 | 64.27 | 83.49 | 6.24 | |||||
- Other renewables |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
Energy production | |||||||||||
- Total | 518.85 | 1192.57 | 2031.35 | 2219.60 | 2133.0 | 3.70 | |||||
- Solids*** | 149.77 | 217.05 | 207.26 | 196.02 | 180.26 | –1.15 | |||||
- Liquids | 86.71 | 220.98 | 488.63 | 485.72 | 521.9 | 5.52 | |||||
- Gases | 236.90 | 733.51 | 1316.38 | 1518.55 | 1418.2 | 4.21 | |||||
- Nuclear | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
- Hydro | 45.47 | 21.02 | 19.08 | 19.31 | 12.64 | –3.13 | |||||
- Other renewables |
— | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
Net import (Import–Export) | |||||||||||
- Total | 741.31 | 1 434.42 | 2093.42 | 2361.76 | 2670.97 | 4.23 |
TABLE 3. INSTALLED CAPACITY, ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Average annual growth rate (%) | |||||||
1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017* | 2000–2017* | |
Capacity of electrical plants (MW(e)) | |||||||
- Thermal–EGAT | 1977 | 5755 | 12 964 | 11 569.40 | 12 060 | 12 573 | –0.18 |
- IPP | 3456 | 12 152 | 14 767 | 14 949 | 9.00 | ||
- SPP (Cogeneration) | 1433 | 2182 | 3919 | 5769 | 8.54 | ||
- Hydro | 1269 | 2236 | 2880 | 3488 | 3496 | 3500 | 1.15 |
- Purchased | 340 | 1588 | 3387 | 3878 | 15.39 | ||
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Renewable and other | 0.53 | 29 | 1217 | 1764 | 61.14 | ||
- Total | 3246 | 7992 | 21 073.53 | 31 008.40 | 38 845 | 42 433 | 4.20 |
Electricity production (GWh) | |||||||
- Thermal–EGAT | 12 347 | 37 614 | 61 213.76 | 65 906.59 | 66 239 | 56,230 | –0.50 |
- IPP | 18 212.92 | 74 448.13 | 70 533 | 63 669 | 7.64 | ||
- SPP | 10 175.54 | 13 897.30 | 23 906 | 34 367 | 7.42 | ||
- Hydro–EGAT | 1653 | 4858 | 5891.44 | 5325.20 | 4097 | 4580 | –1.47 |
- Nuclear | |||||||
- Renewable and other | 527 | 2266 | 4355 | 5760 | 15.11 | ||
- Purchased | 753 | 717 | 2966.25 | 7253.78 | 14 247 | 24 329 | 13.18 |
- Total | 14 754 | 43 190 | 98 986.91 | 169 097 | 183 377 | 188 935 | 3.88 |
Total electricity consumption (GWh) | 13 601 | 38 203 | 88 021 | 149 320 | 174 833.71 | 185 124.05 | 4.47 |
TABLE 4. ENERGY RELATED RATIOS
1990 | 2000 | 2010 | 2015 | 2017* | |
Energy consumption per capita (GJ/capita) | 22.29 | 38.84 | 58.84 | 66.11 | n.a. |
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh/capita) | 678.56 | 1418 | 2337.51 | 2659.88 | 2796.86 |
Electricity production/Energy production (%) | 29.97 | 28.41 | 29.24 | 30.81 | 33.52 |
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 | 1000 | 2029 | 2035 |
EGAT nuclear power plant 2 | LWR | 1000 | 2030 | 2036 |