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EGAT Thai solar plan a ray of sunshine 
Bangkok Post: 2 Jun 2010
Egat solar plans come as a ray of sunshine

The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand plans to build the country's largest solar power plant in Prachuap Khiri Khan after rejecting a coal-fired power plant proposal that was strongly opposed by local residents.

Bunpot Sangkeo, Egat's deputy governor for corporate social responsibility, said yesterday the new plant would be built on 4,000 rai in Thap Sakae district where the agency had planned to build the controversial fueled coal-fired energy plant which residents feared would have detrimental health and environmental effects.

Egat expects the new 5,000-kilowatt photovoltaic plant to win public approval as it would cause fewer environmental problems than a coal-fired operation.

Mr Bunpot said the project would be subject to public hearings before it could proceed. Egat would soon begin explaining the plant's details.

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