Prime Minister Hun Sen opened the 30th ASEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting
yesterday in Phnom Penh, where ASEAN officials will focus on ASEAN green energy
and develop a plan for ASEAN’s power grid, officials said.
Victor Jona, deputy director
general of energy of the General Department of Energy at the Ministry of
Industry, Mine and Energy, told reporters on Monday that the Senior Officials
Meeting on Energy (SOME) will discuss ASEAN’s power grid connectivity and green
energy.
“This meeting is mainly focused
on power grid connectivity and efficiency of power utilities,” he said, adding
that “it’s also focused on the topic of ASEAN green energy”.
“We want to link green power,
which emits no CO2 into the air with our current systems,” he continued, adding
that green energy generated by sunlight, wind or water would benefit ASEAN greatly.
Datuk Loo Took Gee, secretary
general of the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water for Malaysia,
said yesterday that ASEAN’s green connectivity is a new and important topic for
energy development and for the future of the ASEAN community.
She said that one of the main
functions of her ministry is to promote green technology, especially green
energy, energy efficiency and renewable energy such as solar energy, biomass
and hydro-electricity.
Few companies follow her
ministry, so they need to know more about the investment climate in Cambodia,
she said.
Green energy would help the ASEAN
community to attract more tourists in the future, particularly by providing an
electric railway connection from Singapore to China, she added. “I am sure we
will develop the spirit of ASEAN cooperation here,” she said.
She added that “Malaysian
companies are willing to come here to invest to help the Cambodian government
to develop its energy sector and infrastructure for the water industry”.
She said ASEAN’s power grid
connectivity plan is huge for ASEAN member states who need to explore more
energy source options such as hydropower, wind and solar.
“There is the big plan to link
all 10 countries to trade in electricity, so we can explore the potential of
hydroelectricity as well,” she said.
Based on the Electricity Supply
Development Master Plan from the years 2010-2020, Cambodia will have an
additional 3173.2 megawatts installed.
Nine hundred megawatts of
Cambodia’s future power capacity will come from coal power plants to be built
between 2010 and 2018.
Hydropower will make up 1873.2
megawatts of Cambodia’s total energy generated, according to research compiled
by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia in 2011.
Rann Reuy
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