Laos has 20 power plants in this atlas, with 4,987 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Hongsa (1,878 MW, coal; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are hydro and coal. Grid operators listed here include Electricité du Laos. Renewables supplied 76.7% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Laos
Vertically integrated utilityOne utility does everything
Hydropower supplies almost all electricity, much of it exported to Thailand.
GenerationState utility
TransmissionState utility
DistributionState utility
CustomersGovernment-set tariffs
Who regulates
No separate independent regulator is listed: the government or the utility itself sets tariffs and technical rules.
Participant in the ASEAN Power Grid initiative, which is gradually linking Southeast Asian grids for cross-border trade.
What does “Vertically integrated utility” mean?
A single, usually state-owned utility generates, transmits and distributes electricity. Prices are set or approved by the government or a regulator rather than by a market.
EDL is a network-utility reference. EDL-T separately operates high-voltage transmission facilities; a direct EDL-T listing is not yet verified here.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Laos is in South-Eastern Asia. Its landlocked geography makes cross-border connections an important part of its regional setting. This profile connects country reference information with the historical station inventory and reported electricity generation.
Capital
Vientiane
Languages
Lao
Region
South-Eastern Asia
Geographic reference: Countries geographic database (ODbL). Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 20 records for Laos. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
20 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 20 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
