With respect to final energy consumption by sector, like other Southeast Asian countries, the four main energy-using sectors in the Lao PDR are industry, transport, others, and non-energy. 'Others' covers subsectors such as residential, agriculture, services, and commerce.
BAU is calculated based on the assumed growth of GDP, population, and oil prices. In APS 1, the Lao PDR will implement energy saving and conservation programmes, reducing energy consumption by 10% during the study period (2018–2030) and 10% from 2030 to 2050.
Although this revenue is insignificant in the short to medium term, in the long term it will increase because the government plans to assume ownership of private power plants. The electrification rate in the Lao PDR was 93.79% in 2018,3 and the government is striving to raise this to 98.00% by 2025.
In the same year, the Lao PDR consumed 4.5 Mtoe of coal, mainly in thermal power plants such as the Hongsa Thermal Power Plant, the country's first and largest coal power plant, which began operating in 2015. Thus, coal demand increased sharply from 2015 onwards.
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