- “Hinghoi Project”, in its 8th year, remains committed to driving social value, educating over 4,000 teachers and youth about renewable energy and providing community access to an additional 40,330 watts of renewable energy
- Aligns with the United Nations SDGs and keeps CKPower’s 2022 – 2026 social value creation framework on track
CKPower Public Company Limited one of the region’s largest producers of electricity from renewables with one of the lowest carbon footprints, is continuing to drive its effort to support society and local communities around its power plants as its Hinghoi Project, now in its 8th year running, has been presented with the AREA Awards 2024 (Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards) – the third straight year the project has been awarded the accolade for Social Empowerment by Enterprise Asia, a leading non-government organisation that promotes responsible enterprises in Asia. This achievement is a testament to the company’s commitment to leveraging its people’s capabilities for social and community development. It aligns with CKPower’s CSR Strategy Framework 2022 – 2026, which includes success indicators for the Hinghoi Project. The framework aims to continuously increase community access to renewable energy, in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
Mr. Thanawat Trivisvavet, Managing Director, CKPower Public Company Limited, said, “We are committed to leveraging our clean energy engineering capabilities to support local communities and society. This effort aligns with our CSR Strategy Framework 2022 – 2026 and contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We have consistently improved and cared for the local communities around our power plants. Our Hinghoi Project, now in its eighth year, has made a positive impact on society in multiple ways. It has increased community access to renewable energy by up to 40,330 watts. Additionally, it has enhanced knowledge of renewable energy for 4,030 leadership teachers and youths. The project has also educated 1,272 people about natural resources and environmental protection. Through these efforts, we are making steady progress in our plan to sustainably improve society’s quality of life.”
The Hinghoi Project by CKPower began in 2016. It was a collaboration of CKPower’s employees, local communities and networks to leverage the know-how and expertise in power production engineering of the company’s personnel to develop society and local communities, especially in solving power shortages. The Hinghoi Project, in its 8th year, recently supported the development of the Ban Mae Mu Nai Border Patrol Police Learning Centre under CKPower’s patronage, where the company led its engineers and staff to design and construct a library in the form of an energy-saving building to reduce power consumption while using locally sourced materials in harmony with the local landscape for ease of future maintenance. There are plans for CKPower’s employees to improve the landscape and decorate the library with a renewable energy theme while encouraging children and youth to learn and understand about renewable energy as well as to have a sustainable life quality.
The commitment by CKPower under the Hinghoi Project illustrates the company’s social empowerment capabilities in the four aspects evaluated by Enterprise Asia: 1. The project has leveraged the principal engineering capabilities of the organisation to develop society and local communities with far-reaching positive impact within the company’s CSR Strategy Framework (Competency, Co-Creation, Cooperation, Connection); 2. The project has produced generations of leadership teachers and clean energy students to ensure sustainable renewable energy development; 3. The project has clear goals and measurable results and has consistently been executed to achieve these goals; 4. The project exemplifies sustainable development by setting up a renewable energy fund, ensuring each community has the resources to maintain company-provided equipment and to consistently follow up on what has been done. As a result, CKPower has been awarded the AREA Awards 2024 for Social Empowerment for the third consecutive year. This recognition underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to social responsibility and community development.
Mr. Thanawat added: “Winning the AREA Award 2024 is a success and a testament to CKPower’s intention to take care of society and local communities. We consistently follow up on the Hinghoi Project, in its eighth year running, as well as other initiatives on the Hinghoi Project’s mission such as the Empowering Kids for a Sustainable World which is a model project that fulfills the need for renewable energy through solar panel installations and a renewable energy fund for schools and communities around our power plants. The initiative helps save money on electric bills for Pakthongchai Chunhawan Wittayakarn School near the Bangkhenchai Solar Power Plant in Nakhon Ratchasima and Udomseel Witthaya School near the Bangpa-in Cogeneration Power Plant in Ayutthaya. It also makes children and youth leaders more knowledgeable with a better understanding of renewable energy as part of our effort to pass on to the communities around the schools to build on and fulfill the goals of the Hinghoi Project in building all-around access to renewable energy for society and the local community. Under this activity, CKPower’s volunteers have together designed teaching methods for over 200 renewable energy youths at the two local schools so they can pass on the knowledge about renewable energy and the protection and rehabilitation of natural resources and the environment.”
For the next step, CKPower will continue to run the Hinghoi Project to achieve its CSR Strategy Framework goals by 2026. This involves creating shared social value in partnership with all power plants in Thailand and the Lao PDR to ensure sustainable project development while promoting access to renewable energy for society’s life quality improvement and setting up renewable energy funds to promote sustainable livelihood, with the aims to expand the network of renewable energy leadership teachers and youths for a far-reaching positive impact.
