Past event - ASIA 2006
“The future of the world will be shaped in Asia...”
- André Caillé, President of the World Energy Council,
addressing power utility CEOs from the Asia-Pacific region in 2005.
- André Caillé, President of the World Energy Council,
addressing power utility CEOs from the Asia-Pacific region in 2005.
The countries of Asia with the most rapidly developing economies - China, India, Russia, Vietnam - all have major programmes of water resources and renewable energy development underway. Many other countries in Asia have a vast hydroelectric potential waiting to be developed, and an urgent need to accelerate the development of projects.
About 93,000 MW of hydro capacity is under construction now in more than 30 Asian countries, and more than 210,000 MW more is planned to be implemented in the next 10 years or so. International collaboration between many countries in the region is leading to rapid progress, and represents the pathway to sustainable integrated regional development.
Many current issues specific to the Asian region, relating to planning, finance, technology (design, construction, operation and maintenance, safety), environment and stakeholder communications, will be debated by international experts at this Symposium in Bangkok.
Co-host EGAT has a wealth of experience in developing, maintaining and upgrading its own multipurpose dams, hydro stations and pumped-storage plants, as well as helping its neighbouring countries to develop their hydropower resources through power purchase agreements.
The important role of multipurpose dams and renewable energy schemes, particularly hydropower, in social and economic development will be well reflected at the Symposium.Practical ways to develop potential and accelerate socio-economic development will be discussed in Bangkok.