Digital in Thailand

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Ifeel very at home here,” says Matthias Schad with a broad grin. For him, Asia was already of inter­est dur­ing his stu­dent days with a back­pack and a slim wal­let.

Togeth­er with Sales Direc­tor and Site Man­ag­er Manoch Sang­su­van, he has now been lead­ing the future of Rein­hausen Thai­land Ltd in the Bangkok sub­urbs since Octo­ber 2021. “Rein­hausen has a good rep­u­ta­tion here, and peo­ple real­ly appre­ci­ate that we use local staff,” Schad says. Instead of request­ing tech­ni­cians from Ger­many, Rein­hausen is build­ing up exper­tise on site. It all start­ed with clas­sic tap-chang­er main­te­nance ser­vice back in 2016. “In the mean­time, how­ev­er, we are mov­ing more into the areas of trans­former ser­vice and dig­i­tal­iza­tion. For exam­ple, we are installing mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems,” Schad tells us. This requires man­pow­er: “We start­ed with six peo­ple; now we are 13 and still grow­ing.”

EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS

Over the last 30 years, the elec­tri­cal grid in Thai­land has been expand­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly, and the ener­gy sup­ply is in good con­di­tion. The mar­ket is dom­i­nat­ed by the three state-owned util­i­ties: EGAT for large pow­er plants and the nation­wide trans­mis­sion grid, PEA for the nation­wide dis­tri­b­u­tion grid, and MEA for sup­ply­ing the Bangkok met­ro­pol­i­tan region. “We main­ly sup­ply them with replace­ment parts and sup­port them dur­ing emer­gency sit­u­a­tions,” Schad tells us. For oth­er customers—such as pow­er plants or com­pa­nies from the steel con­struc­tion or semi­con­duc­tor industry—Reinhausen Thai­land also takes care of main­te­nance and per­forms ser­vice calls.

In Asia, peo­ple are more open to tech­ni­cal inno­va­tions than in the rest of the world. Accord­ing­ly, the demand for dig­i­tal solu­tions for mon­i­tor­ing plants is high: “Last year, we equipped 66 trans­form­ers with our ETOS® automa­tion solu­tion for just one of the major ener­gy providers. ETOS® makes it pos­si­ble for cus­tomers to mon­i­tor their equip­ment dig­i­tal­ly,” Schad explains. While dig­i­tal­iza­tion is on the rise, renew­able ener­gies play a sub­or­di­nate but rapid­ly grow­ing role. In con­trast to the Euro­pean mar­ket, the share of renew­able ener­gies in Thai­land is cur­rent­ly only around 15 per­cent. That is why the gov­ern­ment is push­ing ahead with e‑mobility.

By 2030, 30 per­cent of all vehi­cles sold are to be elec­tric vehi­cles. There­fore, com­pre­hen­sive charg­ing points are to be installed. “Reg­u­lat­ed local grid trans­form­ers are need­ed to ensure that the grids are fit for this. Here, we can help with the ECOTAP® VPD®,” says Schad.

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30 %

of all vehi­cles sold in the coun­try
are to be elec­tric vehi­cles by 2030

57.4 Gigawatt

new capac­i­ties to be
added by the end of 2037

13 employees

take care of
cus­tomers local­ly

2016

is when the Rein­hausen Thai­land Ltd
sub­sidiary was opened

60 %

of the ener­gy gen­er­at­ed in
Thai­land comes from nat­ur­al gas

200.06 TWh

of elec­tric­i­ty is what the coun­try cur­rent­ly needs. An increase of almost 400 per­cent since 1990

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Your contact

Do you have any ques­tions about
the range of ser­vices in Thai­land?
Matthias Schad is there for you:
M.Schad@my.reinhausen.com