4th BIMSTEC energy meeting continues in Nay Pyi Taw

January 12, 2017

THE second day of the fourth BIMSTEC energy meeting for senior officials was held at Hotel Shwe Pyi Taw in the Nay Pyi Taw Hotel Zone on Thursday morning.

Present at the meeting were high-ranking officers, representatives and officials from the members of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) including Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal.

At the meeting, participants discussed promotion of energy sufficiency among member countries, programmes to bridge the gap between energy need and generation in the member countries, energy planning for sustainable development including the use of renewable energy and connecting the national grids in member countries, and the MoUs on establishment of the BIMSTEC Grid and the Energy Centre.

Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar