Social Projects
EGAT places an emphasis on the meticulous designing of appropriate social projects and action plans to meet the needs of stakeholders in communities in the vicinity of EGAT’s power plants and along the transmission line routes. Our primary goal for these social projects is to mitigate possible impacts from our electricity generating operations both during the construction and throughout their operating phase.
EGAT Biological Way of Life for Sustainable Development
EGAT has further developed model communities under the Biological Way of Life for Sustainable Development Project based on the Sufficiency Economy to be registered as community enterprises. This initiative is to ensure that the communities can continuously have stable incomes and produce products complying with market standards (Organic Agriculture Standards), and safe food, raising the quality of life of the communities toward a sustainable development in accordance with EGAT’s strategic objective. In 2024, EGAT evaluated the potential of model communities and supported the establishment and registration of five community enterprises, namely Ban Thap Sai Organic Agriculture Community Enterprise, Krabi Province; Wiang Kao Organic Agriculture Community Enterprise, Khon Kaen Province; Ban Mae Lua Organic Agriculture Community Enterprise, Phrae Province; Ban Klong Thom Tai Organic Agriculture Community Enterprise, Krabi Province, and Suratsadaphirom Organic Agriculture Community Enterprise, Surat Thani Province.
Khok Nong Na Model
EGAT has implemented the Khok Nong Na Model toward sustainable social development in cooperation with the Agri-nature Network in the river basins of the seven dams and three power plants. In 2024, 10 EGAT Sufficiency Economy Study and Development centers conducted trainings for the youth, the public, communities, and networks around EGAT’s dams and power plants and extended the results to other river basins countrywide. Out of 1,374 participants attending the trainings, 405 persons have further developed their projects. There are also 10 developed success models of areas, communities, and people from the application of the Sufficiency Economy philosophy.
In addition to the adoption of the Khok Nong Na Model, EGAT installed solar-powered water pumps for 72 farmers who participated in the project.
Sports Promotion
EGAT has provided financial support to sports associations under the project “One Project, One State Enterprise Plus” in order to develop the athletes of the country. In 2024, EGAT provided financial support of 30,000,000 Baht to the sports associations and sponsored an amount of 8,400,000 Baht to the Thai athletes in the Olympic Games 2024 comprising the Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association (TAWA); the Rowing and Canoeing Association of Thailand (RCAT); and the Navy Football Club, Royal Navy.
Mobile Units on Optical Service
In 2024, EGAT implemented the project of mobile units on optical service with a target of providing 72,000 eyeglasses, including 18 mobile units to provide 27,000 eyeglasses at Crown Prince Hospitals, 26 mobile units to provide 25,000 eyeglasses in EGAT and allies’ areas, as well as providing 20,000 eyeglasses to the vulnerable, elderly, and disabled groups.
Disaster Mitigation
EGAT gave assistance to disaster victims, particularly those affected by natural disasters that caused danger and damage to lives and property and required urgent assistance. During the floods from July – December 2024, EGAT provided flood victims in 25 provinces with 29,982 survival bags and 359,784 bottles of drinking water. Moreover, EGAT provided the people who suffered from the cold weather during November – December 2024 with 15,000 blankets.
Furthermore, in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy, EGAT visited the flood victims in Wiang Pa Pao District, Chiang Rai Province, to deliver some necessities. EGAT also cooperated with the Friends in Need (of “PHA”) Volunteers Foundation and related organizations in the restoration of the flooded areas in Tham Pha Chom and Wiang Phan Kham Communities in Mae Sai District, Chiang Rai Province, by supporting labor and machinery in removing mud from roads, placing Big Bags, and constructing walls along the Sai River, cleaning houses, dredging canals, and moving mud and waste to dumping sites. Besides, EGAT joined hands with the Thai Volunteer Engineers Foundation and networks in repairing the electricity system to restore the flooded areas in Nan, Chiang Rai, Phayao, and Yala Provinces during September – December 2024.
