Academic paper for King Prajadhipok's Institute, presented on 7th Chula-ASEAN Forum (31 July - 3 August, 2018)

1. Promoting usage of renewable
energy for generating electricity
power in Thailand
with pursuing goal of ASEAN energy
cooperating and sustainable development
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2. Rationale of the Study
• Energy consumption releases carbon dioxide
Ration of releasing carbon dioxide from energy consumption during Jan.-Feb. 2018
Source: Energy Policy and Planning Office, Ministry of Energy
CO2 releasing by industry
42.1 million tons of CO2 2.1%
Remark: Comparing to the same
period of last year
Power Plant
35%
14.7 million tons of CO2
Logistics
29%
12.3 million tons CO2
Manufacture
28%
11.6 million tons of CO2
*Others includes
household, agriculture,
commerce, etc.
Others*
8%
3.5 million tons of CO2
0.474
CO2 Releasing per
Electricity production
Kg of CO2/kWh

3. Rationale of the Study
3
Thailand and Global warming problem
Yearly amount of greenhouse gases in Thailand
350 Million tons
73% of greenhouse gases are from
energy section
20-25% from nowadays is the target
of Thailand
21 ranking of world releasing
greenhouse gases

4. Rationale of the Study

5. Rationale of the Study
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2578
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26%
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30%
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2593
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2563
40%
2563
8%
2563
20%
2579
10%
2563

6. Study Result
❖ Biomass Power Plant is the most stable renewable power plant in term of
energy generation, comparing to other kinds of renewable power plant

7. Study Result
❖ Measures of Adder and Feed-in Tariff (FiT) affects to electricity charge
burden, and direction of generating electricity from renewable energy
may cause risk to stability of electricity system.

8. Study Result
❖ ASEAN Power Grid is balked. One of reasons is the lacking of policy and
organization to support among ASEAN

9. Policy Options
• Support electricity
produced from Waste or
remaining material
(Waste to Energy)
• Solve problem of
accumulated waste
focusing on eliminating
without remaining
• Significant solution to get
rid of environment
problem
Option 1
Environment
management
(Waste-to-energy plant)
• Support FiT by supporting
renewable energy by that
has least FiT and least
effect to Ft so it will not
be citizen’s burden
• Specify appropriate FiT
price by having
Plant Factor as a part of
FiT price determination
Option 2
Electricity price
(based on FiT)
• Support producing
electricity from
renewable energy with
high stability (based on
the lowest dependable
capacity evaluation of
renewable energy or
Plant Factor) from
biomass, biogas, waste or
remaining material
Option 3
Stability of power
plant
(biomass, biogas, waste)

10. Policy Recommendations
1) Adjusting ratio of producing electricity from renewable
energy of each kind by following Alternative Energy Development Plan
(AEDP 2015) which considers capital cost and national benefits for producing
electricity from varied kind of renewable fuel in every aspects
2) Specify plan of using land for producing renewable fuel
3) Determine an organization to take responsibility to study and prioritize
suitability for buying electricity based on kind of renewable fuel in
term of location detail
4) Promote and support small renewable producer that can produce
and can apply to use within the community effectively
5) Promote and support policy that allow private sector to
produce renewable electricity efficiently and stably

11. Policy Recommendations
6) Regulate laws or principles on acceptation of buying electricity which may have
exception by considering reason of necessity or holistic information such as case
of buying electricity from waste-to-energy fuel which should be
accelerated and should reduce limitation of regulation that
become obstacles to the investment of building local power plant,
because it is more about environment management than power production
7) Rectify appropriate rate of buying electricity in format of Feed-
in Tariff (FiT)
8) Support development of renewable power plant via measures and
mechanics of economic motivation such as:
❖ Carbon Credit mechanisms
❖ Carbon tax law (Carbon Pricing Bill)
❖ Exceptional policy / tax reductions