The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT), Thailand’s leading state-owned vertically-integrated power utility, plans to launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO) for a Baht 20bn (US$614m) infrastructure fund, which would enable to invest in electricity infrastructures and in future investments. EGAT plans to invest Baht 42bn (US$1.3bn) in 2015 to expand transmission lines and to build new power plants. The IPO could be in April 2015.
EGAT is the largest power producer in Thailand, with more than 1/3 of the country's installed capacity (15 GW in 2013), and owns and operates a high voltage transmission network covering all parts of the country. EGAT is also the single buyer, purchasing bulk electricity from private power producers and neighbouring countries and sells wholesale electric energy to the Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA), the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA), distributors, industrial customers and neighbouring utilities.
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