SINGAPORE: Cambodia has abandoned plans to build a US$1.5bil 700 megawatt (MW) coal-fired power project in a protected reserve along the country’s south-western coast and will build an 800MW natural-gas fired plant instead, its energy minister says.
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.
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