KRATIE: Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that he will provide electricity to rural areas in Cambodia, while Cambodia currently has 98 percent of the country's electricity.

At the inauguration ceremony of National Road No. 7 in Kratie province on 7 February 2022, Prime Mnister Hun Sen has stated that currently the area where there is no electricity is the area with the resettlement of people and some newly developed provinces in the northeastern region of Cambodia, such as Kratie, Mondulkiri, Ratanakkiri, Stung Treng and Preah Vihear provinces, which may have a slightly slower access to electricity compared to other provinces that already have electricity in every village. At the same time, Kratie province has 87 percent electricity consumption throughout the province.

The prime minister has said; " The connection to the electricity network there is difficult, but this is not the era of incandescents, nor the era of incandescent lamps, the era of using batteries, but we will change all of our rural villages to have access to electricity, which is now 98 percent covered."

According to the President of the Electricity Authority of Cambodia, Mr. Yim Viseth , that by the end of 2020, 13798 villages, equivalent to 97.39 percent, got access to electricity, while the remaining 370 villages , only 2.61 percent do not have access to electricity yet.

He has added that the people who do not have electricity yet, get electricity from solar sources, using the solar panels of Electricite du Cambodge or buy their own.