Cambodia: Thai and Khmer will construct Stung Num dam in Koh Kong.

Von Nomade51 @nomade51

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to construct the Stung Num hydropower dam in Koh Kong, Cambodia. Thailand agreed to buy the electricity.

Koh Kong map

Hydro power and coal fired power.

Thailand and Cambodia are to establish a working group to facilitate cooperation for the Stung Num hydropower plant and a coal-fired power plant on Koh Kong after both countries agreed on electricity sharing.

The project was initiated in 2008 by Cambodia but had been put on hold for years because of political conflicts between the two countries.

Thailand buys most of energy.

Water stored in the dam will be managed for Cambodian communities as well as for agricultural and industrial sectors in the Koh Kong area, and it will be sufficient for sharing some 200-500 million cubic metres with Thailand’s Map Ta Phut industrial estate in the eastern seaboard province of Rayong, as well as with Chantaburi and Trat provinces.