Plans announced by Cambodia to deliver electricity to most of the country by the end of 2013 will leave Burma in the dark. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said his proposal to develop a national electricity grid over the next three years will result in most of the country’s 14 million people being connected to regular electricity. At present, only 25 percent of Cambodians are linked into a central power grid, while many rely on individual diesel generators, as in Burma. “On a per capita basis, this will put Burma way behind. It’s doubtful if 25 percent of Burma’s 50 million population has regular electricity and there are no plans there to develop a national transmission infrastructure,” said regional energy industries consultant Collin Reynolds in Bangkok.
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