This project also has the capacity to generate electricity. The Royal Irrigation
Department collaborates with Kasetsart University to examine, research, and extending
the result by installing turbines in all flood gates around the country as an alternative to
use hydroelectricity. Moreover, it helps reduce global warming, save other resources in
the country an immense deal. Nowadays, Kasetsart University is in the process of waiting
to sign patents for kinetic-energy generator and the completed kinetic-energy generator
with His Majesty the King’s monogram and they will be presented to His Majesty the
King later on.
During that period of the year when there are the inundating water from the North and
high sea-level rise including this year’s incident in which large volume of water was
inundating from October to November, Klong Lad Pho flood gate under the royal
initiative acts as a tool in managing water around the lower area of Chao Phraya River.
It alleviates the fallout from inundating water effectively by releasing water to the Gulf of
Thailand on the average of 40 million cubic meters per day and the operation result from
August to 15 November 2010 shows that it could sluice water approximately 2,470 million
cubic meters in total. This is moderately large amount of water that should be drained to
the Gulf of Thailand.