Thailand
aims
to
meet
20%
of
its
total
energy
consumption
from
renewable
resources
by
that
date,
and
has
set
a
target
to
generate
500MW
of
solar
power.
In
late
2007
it
launched
generous
solar
feed-in
tariffs
designed
to
help
meet
the
goal,
prompting
a
surge
in
interest
that
means
the
target
is
already
oversubscribed.
“We
have
already
received
applications
to
build
3,358MW
of
solar
projects,”
says
Twarath
Sutabutr,
deputy
director-general
at
the
Department
of
Alternative
Energy
Development
and
Efficiency
(DEDE),
part
of
Thailand’s
Ministry
of
Energy.
More
than
2GW
of
these
applications…
