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ENTEC focuses on building and transferring
high-quality energy technology knowledge to stakeholders,
to create tangible socio-economic impact. ENTEC’s mission
supports governmental policy to strengthen industry and
national energy security, and is in line with Sustainable
Development Goals 7 (SDG7), Alternative Energy
Development Plan (AEDP2015), Strategic Plan to Move
Thailand Forward with BCG Economy, and the 6th NSTDA
Strategic Plan (2017-2021).
ENTEC’s operational guidelines focus on works related to the following 4 aspects:
1. Excellence – carrying out works with expertise and professionalism to achieve high-quality outputs.
2. Relevance – complying with National Strategic Plan and the needs of target users.
3. Impact – creating an economic impact, improving the quality of life and enhancing the country’s competitiveness through research, development and engineering.
4. Visibility – building trust and confidence in quality and expertise at national, regional and international levels.
Working Guidelines
ENTEC has systematically developed working mechanisms through Technology/Research S-curves as an assisting tool for research management, resource allocation, and work planning.
In the first five years, ENTEC will focus on 5 areas of research and development on energy technology as follows.
1. Renewable Energy
Develop and promote the commercial use of renewable energy technology suitable for usage in tropical regions, implement the life cycle management of renewable energy system according to the circular economy and sustainable development guidelines and support the development of industrial sector. At the first stage, ENTEC focuses on energy utilization from 2 major
sources, namely solar energy and biomass energy.
(1) Solar Energy: Development of solar cell technology for specific use to support local innovation and investment
opportunity and development of reuse and recycling
technology for discarded solar panels to promote
systematic solar panels management (2) Biomass energy: Development of renewable energy and biofuel technology for biodiesel production from biomass such as oil palm to support the use of biodiesel in transportation sector and increase the usage ratio of biodiesel in Thailand which can be considered as agricultural product price insurance and integration of effective renewable energy usage. Hydrogen production from ethanol and biogas for future fuel cell electric vehicle.
2. Energy Storage System
Promote and develop technology for energy storage system to support the
automotive industry (transportation sector). Support
electric vehicle sector’s and stationary power grid’s policy to increase local industries competitiveness in the world market. Participate in the drive for energy change towards clean energy and carbon-free society. Research work
focus on network cooperation, from knowledge building to practical use in industry, in area such as high energy density storage materials and systems for Lithium ion batteries.
3. Conventional Energy
Promote and develop
high efficiency and environmental friendly fossil fuel energy
technology, works with partners to maintain and strengthen
the research and development capacity in conventional
energy such as catalysts development for pollutants
elimination and improve the quality of diesel fuel, green
chemistry for hazardous substances removal from gas
and oil production, selective absorbents development
for carbon dioxide removal from liquefied natural gas,
improvement of byproducts from coal-fired power plants,
PM2.5 reduction, which is one of the hottest environmental
issues.
4. System Integration and Energy Management
Focus on design and modelling of controlling system and
energy data management to ensure smooth handling
and flexible management of renewable energy. Research
work focuses on integration of renewable energy systems,
conventional energy sources and energy storage, design
and modelling of the controlling systems and acquisition
of energy data, including the analysis and synthesis of
energy data and information for effective and systematic
energy management.
5. ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Carry out research and
development activities to enhance the energy efficiency in
all sectors such as, the reduction of energy intensity and
greenhouse gas in Thailand (Thailand National Determined
Contribution, NDC). Past work focused on supporting
transportation sector and evaluation of co-benefits
between renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Facilitate the implementation of research work and
innovation through collaboration with alliance networks,
both industrial and governmental, such as Thailand Energy
Storage Technology Association (TESTA), ASEAN Center for
Energy (ACE). Join Hydrogen Thailand Group for resource
integration and allocation to help achieved all work targets
as committed.
