Energy

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos expects to import electric vehicles next year to support the government’s move to minimise the use of fossil fuels.The import of electric vehicles will follow the government’s order for a pilot project, EV Lao Company Limited Deputy Managing Director, Mr ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos is targeting an increase in trade in electricity with Vietnam on a year-on-year basis after the two sides reached agreements on developing energy and mining projects and electricity trading contracts earlier this year.Electricity exports to Vietnam will include those sourced ...

Cambodia has asked Laos to speed up the transmission of energy to the kingdom under a deal signed earlier this year.In March, the Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) signed an agreement to purchase 200 MW from Laos from 2019 to 2021.Cambodian Commerce Minister Pan Sorasak urged ...

Heavy monsoonal rains in northeastern Laos ripped through a small one-megawatt hydropower dam in Xieng Khouang province’s Pek district earlier this week, causing extensive damage and flooding rice fields and property, local residents said Wednesday.“Because of heavy rainfall and too much water, the dam couldn’t ...

(KPL) The outflow of water from the Jinghong hydropower station in China’s Yunnan province will decrease by about 25-45 per cent over five days, according to an official notification from China’s Ministry of Water Resources being copied to the Mekong River Commission Secretariat on Monday.In ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Government officials have dismissed social media reports that the Xayaboury dam is slowing the flow of water to downstream sections of the Mekong.The dam is built on the run-of-river model, which does not require water to be stored, the Director General of ...

Both the government of Laos and the builders of the Xayaburi dam are dismissing allegations that damming of the Mekong River, for the trial run of electricity generators, is one of the reasons for the sharp drop of water levels in the downstream stretches of ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Eleven fuel companies that are given registrations to import fuel must complete all the business improvement measures stipulated in Prime Minister’s Decree No. 331 by November, a senior official at the Petroleum and Gas Association has said.The authorities plan to conduct ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Xayaboury hydropower plant yesterday began a trial operation of its fifth generator, setting the first run-of-river dam in the lower Mekong basin on track to begin commercial operation at the end of this year.A senior official at the Xayaboury Energy and ...

Around 1,400 people in Laos are finding it difficult to support themselves three months after relocating for a local dam construction project. Some even return to their old villages to tend rice fields during the country’s planting season.The Chinese-backed Nam Ou 4 dam is one ...