Less than five per cent of the total households in Myanmar are using Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), said Pyae Wa Tun, CEO of the Parami Energy, at a press conference in Yangon on December 10.
The company has built the LPG filling plant with the use of Denmark’s technology. Parami Energy will distribute up to 150,000 households during this year.
The company will distribute LPG kits weighing 5 kg and 12 kg to the market. The company plans to distribute LPG to nearly two million households in 2020.
“Our country needs 5,000-6,000 tons of LPG every month. Thailand is exporting LPG to Myanmar. The annual LPG imports hit about 70,000 tons. This amount is relatively low compared to the annual consumption of four million tons of LPG in Thailand,” added CEO Pyae Wa Tun who is also the chair of the Parami Energy Group.
Less use of LPG in Myanmar is linked to the lack of mass LPG distribution in the market. The people have increased access to solar and the government’s power grids. Villages in Myanmar see big reforms as almost all these progresses are in the rural areas, according to the 2017 survey findings.
In 2017, more than one-fourth of the total households used the solar system for power supply. It can be compared with the situation which had no solar power in 2009-2010.
The number of households which had access to electricity increased from 3.4 million in 2015 to 4.5 million in 2017. The power supply sector has many prospects for improvements through the connection with the national power grids.
