{"id":10474,"date":"2025-05-20T03:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=10474"},"modified":"2025-05-20T03:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T03:48:15","slug":"lng-power-plants-in-thilawa-and-thakayta-set-for-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=10474","title":{"rendered":"LNG power plants in Thilawa and Thakayta set for restart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17 May 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Ministry of Electric Power, efforts are underway to reopen the LNG-fired power plants Thilawa (Thanlyin) and Thakayta in Yangon Region.<br>When the LNG-based power plants return to operation, electricity will be prioritised for distribution to industrial zones in the Yangon and Mandalay Regions. LNG-imported companies are also working with the ministry to enable this distribution.<br>Although the country has an installed generation capacity of 6,878 megawatts, only around 2,300 megawatts\u2014approximately 50 per cent of the national electricity requirement\u2014are currently being generated daily.<br>As of May 2025, the ministry noted that available electricity is being distributed proportionally: 52 per cent to Yangon Region, 17 per cent to Mandalay Region, and 31 per cent to other regions and states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#LNG_power_plants #Myanmar #mtnews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-17_12-19-08-2-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-17_12-19-08-2-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-17_12-19-08-2-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-17_12-19-08-2-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/photo_2025-05-17_12-19-08-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 May 2025 According to the Ministry of Electric Power, efforts are underway to reopen the LNG-fired power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10477,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10474\/revisions\/10477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}