Ministry of Energy (Thailand)
The Ministry of Energy of the Kingdom of Thailand (Thai: กระทรวงพลังงาน; RTGS: Krasuang Phalang Ngan) is a Cabinet Ministry in the Government of Thailand. Since August 2014, the portfolio has been headed by Minister Narongchai Akrasanee.
History
The energy demand has been increasing dramatically during past decades, leading more important role of these scattering energy institutes to economic development of country and sometimes the operating in one institute may affect significantly to the other if there is a lack of coordination and policy unity, since 1986 the government has taken coordination of policy and the supervision of scattering institutes into consideration in order to operate concordantly which led to the establishment of the National Energy Policy Committee in 1992 (B.E.2535) under the National Energy Policy Council Act (1992) and is responsible for managing the energy sector in Thailand, including granting energy operating licenses and issuing energy pricing regulations. Thaksin Shinawatra, then Prime Minister in 2002, concluded in a conference regarding role change, mission and government structure to establish “Bureau of Energy” on 2 November B.E.2544 (2001) which was later upgraded to the "Ministry of Energy" in 2002 pursuant to the Restructuring of Government Organization Act (2002).[2][3]
Department
Administration
- Office of the Minister
- Office of the Permanent Secretary
Dependent Department
- Department of Mineral Fuels
- Department of Energy Business
- Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency
- Energy Policy and Planning Office
State Enterprises
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