Hydropower Development Plans and Progress in Lao PDR

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  • Xaypaseuth Phomsoupha Director General of Energy Promotion & Development in the Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/hn.v4i0.1816

Keywords:

Hydro power development in Laos, IPP projects in Laos

Abstract

Laos is a mountainous country with very favorable conditions of hydropower development. Rainfall is considered high. It has 26,000 MW of theoretical potential. The Laos Govt. has a strategy to use hydropower to eradicate poverty. It has continuously made numbers of agreements with the neighboring country Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia for increased power export. The companies developing and exporting hydropower also has a system to include importing company as equity share holder of the company. It will supply 7000 MW and 5000 MW to Thailand and Vietnam respectively by 2020. It has set a target to increase domestic electrification from present 60% to 90% by 2020. The participation of private sector is sought and promoted through Build-Own-Operate-Transfer approach. The exports of power sector amounts to 30% of all Laos export Levels.

Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment Issue No. 4, January, 2009 Page 15-17

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Author Biography

Xaypaseuth Phomsoupha, Director General of Energy Promotion & Development in the Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines

graduated with a Masters Degree in Development Administration at the Australian National University in Canberra. During his 23-year career Mr. Xaypaseuth has also completed a series of overseas formal training courses in legal disciplines and in financing. He was first involved in the power sector as project analyst in 1991. Subsequently, he was appointed as Chief Secretary of the Lao National Committee for Energy (LNCE) in 1996. In his current position as Director General of Energy Promotion & Development in the Lao Ministry of Energy and Mines, he is directly responsible for drafting and negotiating legal documents for non-recourse financing in the Lao power sector. During is career he has been involved in non-recourse financing negotiations within the power sector involving two IPP projects that are now supplying electricity to Thailand and several others that are currently under construction. Presently he is the lead negotiator heading up the government-investor negotiation team to negotiate the concession agreements, power purchase agreements and credit facilities agreements of IPP projects to supply electricity to the domestic grid, as well as to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

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Published

2009-05-24

How to Cite

Phomsoupha, X. (2009). Hydropower Development Plans and Progress in Lao PDR. Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment, 4, 15–17. https://doi.org/10.3126/hn.v4i0.1816

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Vol. 4 (2009)

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