Intra-ASEAN power trade deal records positive outcomes
The Laos - Thailand - Malaysia - Singapore Power Integration Project (LTMS-PIP) has been officially approved by governments of the ASEAN member countries involved in the ASEAN Vision 2020, opening up prospects of establishing an intra-bloc power grid system.
Vientiane (VNA) - The Laos - Thailand -Malaysia - Singapore Power Integration Project (LTMS-PIP) has been officiallyapproved by governments of the ASEAN member countries involved in the ASEANVision 2020, opening up prospects of establishing an intra-bloc power gridsystem.
LTMS-PIP was initiated by the four countries in September2014 to trade power among the neighbouring countries through the ASEAN EconomicCommunity and ASEAN Power Grid.
It aims to create an energy security system for the regionby connecting to a common power network through which members can share the supplyand transmit electricity to each other, while countries with excess electricitywill sell to those in need easily and conveniently.
Under the project, in June, Singapore started importingrenewable energy from Laos through Thailand and Malaysia, after an initialtwo-year power purchase agreement was signed between Singapore’s KeppelElectric and Laos' state-owned Electricite du Laos (EDL).
Accordingly, Laos will export 30 MW of electricity in thedry season and 100 MW in the rainy season to Singapore in 2022 and 2023./.
Singapore is set to ink an agreement with Laos, Thailand and Malaysia at an ASEAN meeting next month to advance cooperation on cross-border power trading, Singapore’s Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng said on October 26.
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Laos will soon sell electricity to Singapore under the Laos - Thailand - Malaysia - Singapore Power Integration Project (LTMS-PIP), Vientiane Times reported.
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