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Sustainability Report 2020
RATCH Group PCL.
Activity
Objective/ Target
Target group
Result
RATCH Cogeneration Power Plant
To build relationship with communities around the power plant and assist those affected by COVID-19 outbreak
Neighboring communities
• Contribute Baht 10,000 to government offices’ Pansuk (happiness-sharing) cabinet project and COVID-19 test facility.
• Provide dried food to help the affected and funding to support the erection of COVID-19 screening facilities, totaling Baht 185,000.
To inform the public of air quality in their areas and watch out for health impacts from PM2.5
Communities and schools in the vicinity
• Hand out PM2.5 detectors to neighboring communities, so that community members and the public know the areas’ air quality.
• Hand out a PM2.5 detector to Chatusornbamrung School, so that teachers can plan outdoor classes accordingly to the particle level.
To improve community safety for better quality of life
Neighboring communities
• Replace light bulbs on the road where the power plant is located, to increase brightness and help reduce accidents with more brightness.
• Provide financial supports to Tha Khlong Municipality for home and building fixing.
• Providing financial supports to landscape improvement, to guard against dangerous animals.
• Extend scholarships to Chatusornbamrung School students who are poor but show good academic records.
Power plants in Australia
Promote engagement in community and social development
Power plants’ neighboring communities/society at large
Total financial supports reached 382,015.71 Australian dollars (8.24 million baht)
RATCH Group’s power plants
To finance community and national development
Community and society
• The contributions to Power Development Fund by Ratchaburi Power Plant, Tri Energy Power Plant, Nava Nakorn Power Plant (and its extension part), Berkprai Cogeneration Power Plant and RATCH Cogeneration Power Plant totaled 134 million baht.
• RATCH Group paid 2.78 million baht in local taxes and 569.66 million baht
COVID-19 impact rehabilitation activity for neighboring communities
Provision of PM2.5 detector
RCO CARE Project
Community supports
Contributions to Power Development Fund and payments of local taxes and income taxes