Wind power in Thailand. Thirty turbines feeding a grid that runs on gas and coal.

Why Thailand

Thailand is in Southeast Asia, just north of the Equator. It covers about as much land as France or Sweden and is home to around 70 million people. Its climate is tropical and shaped by the monsoon winds. Average temperatures there have been rising since the 1950s.

The country still depends heavily on fossil fuels. Ecologi’s page reports that in 2021 almost 93% of Thailand’s energy came from them, even though that share had been falling slowly since 2010. Gas supplied 64% of its electricity and coal 24%. Only 7% of the country’s primary energy came from renewable sources.

Thailand also has a lot to lose. Its coasts are known for coral reefs and rich sea life, and many people there make a living from tourism, one of the country’s biggest employers. Those coasts are exposed to extreme weather and rising seas as the climate changes.

How the project cuts emissions

The project is a wind farm. Each turbine turns the energy of the wind into movement, and then into electricity. Making that electricity releases no greenhouse gases.

The power goes into Thailand’s national grid. Every unit the wind farm supplies is a unit that fossil fuel power stations do not have to produce. That is where the saving comes from.

• 30 turbines. Each one can generate 3 megawatts, giving the site a total capacity of 90 megawatts.
• A new site. Ecologi describes it as a greenfield project, meaning nothing was installed on the site before the wind farm was built.
• A long life. The project began in 2018 and is planned to run for 25 years, with its carbon crediting period renewed every 10 years.

What it adds up to

According to Ecologi’s page, the wind farm is expected to avoid 131,883 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent for each year it operates. Over 10 years that comes to 1,318,830 tonnes.

These are the project’s planned figures, not a count of results so far. The page does not give a date for them, and it does not publish a running record of what has been achieved, so we cannot give a dated total.

Where it is and who benefits

The turbines stand in three sub-districts of Thepharak District: Nongwang, Bueng Prue and Samnaktakhro. They are in Nakhonratchasima Province, to the north-east of Bangkok.

Ecologi’s page says the project brings more than clean power. Building and running the wind farm creates jobs, and it brings new infrastructure and investment into the area. The page also links a move away from coal and gas with cleaner air.

Ecologi ties the project to four of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: clean and affordable energy, decent work and economic growth, industry and infrastructure, and climate action.

The page does not name the company that developed or operates the wind farm, so we do not name one here.

How the project is checked

We do not choose or run the projects ourselves. They are selected by Ecologi, and this one carries Ecologi’s “Carbon Project Ecologi Approved” mark.

It is also certified by an outside body. Ecologi states that the project is verified under the Verified Carbon Standard, and links to two entries on the Verra registry, a public list of certified projects: projects 1997 and 2002.

What Printlogik has funded here

Ecologi’s public record names this project among those that Printlogik’s contributions have gone to through the Print A Tree Project. Ecologi does not publish a figure for how much carbon we have funded at each project, so we cannot give one for this wind farm.

What Ecologi does publish is our total across all the carbon projects we have supported. That total is shown on the Print A Tree page.

Ecologi now lists this project as previously funded, which means it is no longer taking contributions for it. Every order we print still makes a contribution through Ecologi, and that goes to the projects it supports today.

How your order gets here

1. You order printAny order, of any size. There is nothing to tick and nothing extra to pay.
2. We make a contributionEach invoice triggers a contribution from Printlogik to Ecologi.
3. Emissions are cutEcologi funds projects like this one, and records what we have funded in public.

The UN global goals it supports

The United Nations has set 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a fairer, healthier planet by 2030. Ecologi records this project as supporting 4 of them.

• 7Affordable and clean energy
• 8Decent work and economic growth
• 9Industry, innovation and infrastructure
• 13Climate action

Where it is

Theparak, Thailand · 15.2°N, 101.5°E

Location	Theparak, Thailand
Type of project	Wind power
Status	Ecologi lists it as previously funded and no longer takes contributions for it
Full record	See it on Ecologi