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It added that there were planned outages during the hot season to cope with extra demand on the grid.įactories in Yangon have suffered frequent and random outages recently, and are only able to operate by running generators, which is driving up costs, said a member of the committee that oversees the South Dagon industrial zone. Myanmar’s power stations usually have a combined capacity of 4,200 megawatts, the junta’s electricity ministry said in a statement published in the Global New Light of Myanmar this week.īut output is currently reduced by 1,470 megawatts because of the shutdown of a natural gas power plant, because the Yadana offshore gas project is under maintenance, and because pylons along the Balu Chaung river in Kayah State have been damaged by explosions, the statement said. “Only a fool would talk about electric trains under these conditions.” “The railway tracks are in a bad condition,” a Mandalay local told Myanmar Now. “Due to power cut, all train schedules across the country are halted now,” one netizen wrote following the October speech. His comments have been widely ridiculed on Facebook. “All vehicles must be electric ones in urban areas.” “The plan must be implemented to operate electric trains across the nation,” he said during a speech in Naypyitaw in October. Min Aung Hlaing has spoken publicly about his desire to bring electrified transport to Myanmar on numerous occasions since he seized power in a coup last February and plunged the country into turmoil.
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The coup leader’s widely derided plans to update a creaking transport network come as military-run media announced this week that reduced capacity at power plants was behind twice daily power cuts–between 7am and 11am, and then between 5pm and 7pm.
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Myanmar is not generating enough power to supply its factories and homes, and the country faces daily hours-long blackouts, but its dictator Min Aung Hlaing is dreaming about electric trains and cars.