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Banpu ploughs ahead with clean energy

Despite a need to shift towards defensive business operations, including cuts in capital spending and salaries among executives during the recession, Banpu Plc is not losing steam as it grows in the clean energy field.

Ms Somruedee is determined to shift Banpu towards clean energy. (Photo by Pawat Laupaisarntaksin)

Renewable energy and further development of energy technologies are two key elements in the business direction of the company, which began as a coal company nearly 40 years ago.

Its growth is based on a “greener and smarter” concept designed to catch the global trend of clean energy.

“We see the trend in the global market and new technologies are being developed as a result,” said Banpu chief executive Somruedee Chaimongkol.

The pandemic is another challenge her company has to get through, though this means it is required to reduce operation costs and…

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