Thailand

TABLE 1. ESTIMATED AVAILABLE ENERGY SOURCES

Estimated Available Energy Sources 2017
 Fossil Fuels Nuclear  Renewables
Solid Liquid Gas Uranium Hydro Other
renewable
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