Clean coal technology to be used in Dawei power plant

On Tuesday, 30 July 2013


A work site in Dawei Special Economic Zone. (Photo-Phyoe Zin)

Clean coal technology will be used at a new power plant in Dawei Special Economic Zone in southern Myanmar, according to the Dawei project management committee.

“We aim to build a power plant that uses clean coal technology to provide electricity from the Dawei project,” Thaung Lwin, the committee’s chairman, told a press conference on July 27. The power plant is to be installed at a capacity of 600 mega watt and to be completed by 2017.

“In the 1960s, Japan’s coal-fired power plants produced a lot of smoke and ash. Now, clean coal technology has reduced those wastes. In fact, to get such technology is one reason why we are inviting Japan [to engage in Dawei Project],” he noted.

Two small power plants that will use liquefied natural gas are also planned at the Dawei Special Economic Zone. One that will produce 36MW will be completed by September 2014, and another to produce 180MW by July 2015.

Dawei Deep Seaport and Special Economic Zone Project are being co-developed in Taninthari region by Myanmar and Thailand. Italian-Thai Company initiated this multi-billion dollar project in 2008, but project implementation is still focusing at infrastructural developments.

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