The dam, able to produce 920 megawatts of electricity, hopes to sell 95% of its supply to the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (Egat). Cross-border impacts of the proposed dam are ...

The Lao government’s determination to plow ahead with construction of the controversial US$3.5-billion Xayaburi hydropower dam in northern Laos puts the mighty Mekong River’s spectacular biodiversity, ...

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River. UNESCO experts insist that a huge dam would destroy the ...

The China-backed Pak Lay hydropower project is just one of nine dams that the Lao government has planned for the Mekong River. UNESCO experts insist that a huge dam would destroy the ...

Five more dams are under construction in China. Downstream, in Laos and Cambodia, 11 major dams—the first on the main stem of the lower Mekong—are either proposed or already being built.

BANGKOK--Laos has submitted plans to build a new hydropower dam on the Mekong River, with construction expected to start later this year, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said on Monday.

Taking advantage of its mountainous topography and the Mekong River flowing through the country, Laos has extensively developed its hydropower capacity. As of 2021, the country has 78 operational ...

The December 2011 ministerial-level meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) agreed to delay a decision on building the Xayaburi dam pending further studies on the impacts of the controversial ...

Even the usually timid media in communist-ruled Laos dared to criticise Beijing over this unprecedented Mekong crisis, with the newspaper headline 'Mainstream Dams are Killing the Mighty Mekong'.

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, Townships along the Mekong ...

French energy giant EDF is planning the construction of a 240 MW floating solar power plant at the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower plant on the Nam Theun River, in Laos. The ambitious scheme, which would ...