Conference urges Cambodia to boost energy efficiency
Officials at a recent energy conference in Phnom Penh stressed that Cambodia needed to use energy more efficiently to meet regional goals, boost economic development and lower overall harm to the environment. More than 150 energy officials from the public and private sectors came together for two days at the Second East Asia Summit Energy Efficiency Conference to discuss energy’s crucial role in economic growth and explore ways to use power in a more intelligent ways…. To promote efficiency energy use the government has conducted workshops on energy management and is working with NGOs and other organizations to meet a goal to decrease carbon emissions by 15 percent by 2015…. Cambodia is still in the early stages when it comes to the adoption of renewable energy, due to lack of experience and funding. Therefore, officials said, Cambodia needs about US$1 billion or some US$ 100 million in annual investment to develop renewable energy projects to meet its countryside electrification goals and reduce the rural population’s dependence on diesel. …
