Cambodia scraps coal power project to build gas-fired plant, import LNG

Cambodia is exploring construction of a LNG terminal to import the super-chilled fuel and re-gasify it for use in the power plant. - Reuters

SINGAPORE: Cambodia has abandoned plans to build a US$1.5 billion 700 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power project in a protected reserve along the southwestern coast and will build an 800 MW natural-gas fired plant instead, its energy minister told Reuters.

As part of the project, Cambodia is exploring construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to import the super-chilled fuel and re-gasify it for use in the power plant, Energy Minister Keo Rottanak told Reuters.