Thai utility needs orders to cut power supply to Myanmar

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According to the Provincial Electricity Authority, protection agencies in both nations must agree on any demand.

PUBLISHED: 24 Jan 2025 at 18: 51

Power lines of the Provincial Electricity Authority cross the border from Mae Sai district in Chiang Rai province to Tachilek in Shan state, Myanmar. (Photo: PEA Facebook account)
The Provincial Electricity Authority’s power lines run across Myanmar’s Shan state, crossing the border with Tachilek in Chiang Rai territory. ( Photo: PEA Facebook account )

In order to hiccup the operations of scammers in the neighboring country, the Provincial Electricity Authority ( PEA ) says it is prepared to work with security authorities to stop providing power from Thailand to border towns in&nbsp, Myanmar.

According to PEA lieutenant governor Prasit Junprasit on Friday, any decision to suspend electricity supplies to Myanmar also calls for close cooperation between Thai and Rakhine security forces.

He added that any decision involving Thai residents who live along the borders and rely on the Seed service would not be impacted.

After the House Committee on State Security, Border Affairs, National Strategy and Reform on Thursday requested explanations from the Ministry of Interior regarding why it hasn’t decided to cut energy supplies to con centers operating across the frontier in Myanmar, Mr. Prasit made the remarks.

The ministry’s Peas is a state-owned organization.

The organization stated in a speech on Friday that Myanmar is a consumer who is paying for its services, and that it was not able to act alone on the matter. &nbsp,

At the request of the Myanmar ambassador in Thailand, which was via the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it stopped providing power to two settlements in Myawaddy region in Kayin position opposite Tak territory in 2023. &nbsp,

The company also canceled a contract with another Shan state border village last year because the Myanmar partner had failed to pay for the power.

Two locations in Myawaddy, in Tak county, and two more, in Tachilek, in Chiang Rai province, are then served by the PEA, which provides electricity to five locations in Myanmar. From Kanchanaburi territory to a border village in Mon state in Myanmar, there is a second line.