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This paper examines energy efficiency differentials between foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) and local plants in Thai manufacturing using data on medium-large plants from the industrial census for 2006. Both descriptive statistics and results of econometric estimation indicate that MNCs had a moderate tendency to use energy relatively efficiently, especially in food products, plastics, basic metals, and non-metallic mineral products. However, differences in energy intensities between MNCs and local plants were not common, suggesting that both groups of plants generally used energy with similar efficiency.