Southeast Asia's 'battery' Laos embraces wind power to sustain energy exports

Reliance on hydroelectricity becomes risk as demand grows in Thailand, Vietnam

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A wind farm in the Netherlands. Mitsubishi Corp. is participating in a large new wind farm in Laos. (Photo courtesy of Mitsubishi subsidiary Eneco)

KOSUKE INOUE and TOMOYA ONISHI, Nikkei staff writers

BANGKOK/TOKYO -- Laos, one of Asia's biggest exporters of hydroelectricity, is poised to make a leap into wind power as a hedge against overreliance on its strained water resources.

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