Singapore agrees to import ‘low carbon’ electricity from Cambodia
Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) said on March 16 that it has granted conditional approval for the local conglomerate Keppel Energy to import 1 gigawatt (GW) of electricity from Cambodia to the country.
Singapore (VNA) – Singapore’s Energy MarketAuthority (EMA) said on March 16 that it has granted conditional approval forthe local conglomerate Keppel Energy to import 1 gigawatt (GW) of electricityfrom Cambodia to the country.
The approval, the first to be awarded by EMA for large-scaleelectricity imports, marked a significant milestone in Singapore’s ambition toimport up to 4GW of low-carbon electricity by 2035. The import is expected tocommence post-2030.
The electricity from solar energy, hydropower, andpotentially wind power, supported by battery energy storage systems or pumpedstorage hydropower, will be transmitted from Cambodia to Singapore via newsubsea cables of more than 1,000km.
Singapore and Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding(MOU) on energy cooperation in October 2022.
The MOU and the conditional approval are important stepstowards the vision of an ASEAN power grid after the implementation of the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-SingaporePower Integration Project (LTMS-PIP) last year. As part of the project, Singapore will import up to 100megawatts of renewable hydropower using existing interconnections, marking thefirst multilateral cross-border electricity trade involving four ASEANcountries./.
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A night view of Singapore. (Source: CNA) 
