Cambodia's electricity demand exceeds 4,000 MWs in 2021, says report


PHNOM PENH, Feb 25 (Xinhua): Electricity demand in Cambodia had surged to 4,014 megawatts (MWs) in 2021, an increase of 1 percent from 3,972 MWs in the year before, the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) said in a report that has been released by the government.

Some 3,033 MWs were generated locally by hydroelectric dams, coal-fired power plants, diesel-fired power plants, solar power plants and biomass power plants, and 981 MWs were imported from neighboring Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, the report said.

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