Cambodia could tap up to 10,000 MW from hydroelectric dams

Cambodia has great potential in hydropower development and the country could build and tap up to 10,000 megawatts from hydropower dams, said an energy official on Thursday. “At the present, about 10 percent of the hydropower potential is under construction,” Heng Kunleang, chief of the energy development department at the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy, said during a launching workshop on Sustainable Energy for All. According to the ministry’s report, Chinese companies have invested over 1.6 billion US dollars to construct six hydroelectric dams with the total capacity of 928 megawatts in Cambodia. …

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