The Ministry of Electric Power responded that it is striving together with relevant companies to generate and distribute power from liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plants as soon as possible in the short term to fully provide electricity to the public and to distribute power to industrial zones in Yangon and Mandalay.
It was a response to enquiry about the report that VPower LNG ship will soon dock at Yangon’s Thilawa Port and is planning to resume electricity distribution.
Although Myanmar has installed a total capacity of 6,878 megawatts of electricity for generation and distribution to the national grid, power generation has decreased as a result of Cyclone Ragi and the destruction of power transmission towers. Only half of the installed capacity can be produced and distributed at the current average daily production of 2,300 megawatts. Accordingly, the statement stated that load shedding and load balancing are being implemented because the nation’s current power consumption is approximately 3,400 megawatts.
According to the current power generation capacity, by May 2025, 52 percent of the power will be distributed to Yangon Region, 17 percent to Mandalay Region, and 31 percent to the remaining regions and states.
The VPower LNG ship has not yet arrived and electricity has not been distributed from the liquefied natural gas (LNG) power facilities, a Yangon Electricity Power Corporation spokesman told One News. . Therefore, the Ministry of Electric Power is working hard to collaborate with relevant companies to produce and distribute electricity from the Thilawa (Thanlyin) and Thaketa liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plants as quickly as possible in the near future.
