Cambodia to boost clean energy use—but coal plants planned too

8 November 2018
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Coal / Energy / Hydropower dams / Ministry of Mines and Energy / Solar power

Cambodia will push ahead with plans to use hydropower and coal to electrify the entire country by 2020, but solar energy will play some role, especially in remote areas, an energy ministry official said on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian nation has electrified rapidly since 2000, when only 16 per cent of the population had access to power, according to the World Bank. ...

 Jared Ferrie
http://news.trust.org/item/20181107114203-3nzlo/

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