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SINGAPORE : Cambodia has abandoned plans to build a $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 construct
SINGAPORE Cambodia has abandoned plans to build a $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.
Cambodia is scrapping plans for a $1.5 billion coal project as crunch climate talks get under way in Dubai, the country’s energy minister told AFP on Wednesday. Keo Rottanak said Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet would announce the cancellation on Thursday. Phnom Penh would instead consider building a terminal for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG). […]