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Solar solutions
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 12/02/2024
» Four years ago, Boonyuen Siritham, president of the Thailand Consumers Council (TCC), paid around 17,000 baht to 18,000 baht monthly in petrol and electricity bills. As an environmentalist, she aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut her expenses so she decided to install a solar rooftop and switched to an electric car. Since then, she pays only 2,500 baht per month for electricity.
Seeking a low-carbon future in Asia
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 13/07/2022
» More than 10,000 energy and mobility professionals from over 50 countries will convene to contribute to Asean's energy transition and clean mobility transformation during "Future Energy Asia 2022" and "Future Mobility Asia 2022", which will take place at Bitec, Bang Na-Trat Road, from July 20-22.
Clean, sustainable energy in the spotlight
Life, Published on 21/09/2020
» Informa Markets is holding two leading international trade shows on energy technology and industrial machinery under the same roof, at Bitec, Bang Na-Trat Road, from Wednesday to Saturday, daily from 10am to 6pm.
France honours Thai industrialist
Life, Published on 22/02/2019
» Congratulations to Phongsthorn Thavisin, who was recently awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur from the French Government for services rendered to the Energy Sector with the French company Total Oil Thailand.
PEA wins 7 SOE Awards 2018
Published on 19/09/2018
» The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) is proud to announce it has won seven Outstanding State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) Awards for 2018.
GULF ramping up capacity for clean power and energy security
Published on 04/12/2017
» Gulf Energy Development Public Company Limited ("GULF") is one of Thailand's largest independent power producers and suppliers. As a holding company, GULF maintains equity stakes in subsidiary companies which primarily operate electricity, steam and chilled water generation facilities, as well as other related businesses. Its equity partners include both domestic firms and international corporate groups, such as J-Power, a leading power producer based in Japan, and Mitsui & Co, a leading Japanese trading firm with investment experience in utilities and power plant projects.
Sustaining environmental activism
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 21/10/2015
» The demography of environmental activists in Thailand has shifted. The pioneering generation, those inspired by the life and death of the late Sueb Nakhasathien, the forest official who committed suicide in what is believed to be a protest against bureaucratic hopelessness, have started retiring, or feel too tired and have moved into other fields.
An endangered craft
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/05/2015
» Ban Khlong Rua, a Muslim village in Krabi province, might be just another small fishing village on the Andaman Sea. But for southerners living along this side of the coast, the name represents the hub of Andaman fishing boatbuilding.
Heating up the rhetoric
Life, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 27/08/2014
» Last week, not long before he was taken into custody by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), consumer activist Ittiboon Onwongsa looked totally free from worries as he sealed parcels of pamphlets with duct tape. The 20 boxes were to be transported to Songkhla province in time for the Aug 19 start of a 950km protest walk from Hat Yai all the way to Bangkok.
The river of dreams
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 31/03/2014
» Sompong Wiengjun sits on a balcony of her house along a dirt road running parallel to the Mun River in Khong Chiam district, Ubon Ratchathani. She sighs while gazing at the foul-smelling river. Twenty years ago, she would have been catching fish and planting vegetables along the river bank.