Surge in electric vehicle sales amid tax rebates, emission rules
Electric vehicles (EVs) have charged forward in Singapore, fuelled partly by more generous tax incentives and stricter emission rules.
Sustainability through renewable energy: Comparing India and Singapore
Singapore: Last week, at an event coinciding with Earth Day (April 22), US President Joe Biden hosted a climate conference with other world leaders, urging them to cooperate in the global effort to tackle the climate crisis. At the Leaders’ Summit on Climate, he committed his country to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least […]
Swiss Axpo to open Singapore office to expand LNG trading in Asia
Swiss renewable energy producer Axpo will open an office in Singapore at the end of this year to expand its trading activities in Asia’s growing liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, it said on Thursday.
Swiss smart grid expert opens subsidiary in Singapore
DEPsys, the Swiss smart grid technology expert, has opened its second subsidiary, DEPsys Pte Ltd in Singapore. At the helm of expansion, Jianjiang PU, an experienced sales leader in the energy sector. In under six months, DEPsys, a Swiss company specialised in the digitalisation of electrical networks, has opened two subsidiaries. After DEPsys GmbH, founded […]
System design key to enhancing cooling effect of water in floating PV
Researchers in the Netherlands and Singapore have measured irradiance-weighted average temperatures of floating PV systems in both countries and have compared the results with reference rooftop and ground-mounted PV systems. They have discovered that floating PV systems with open structures, which allow wind to pass beneath the modules, can provide a higher heat loss coefficient. […]
Tackling Carbon Emissions Is Next Singaporean Big Challenge
Singapore is a major refining and bunkering center and one of the world’s largest aviation hubs, but its latest worry is how to tackle its emissions, a task which will not be so straightforward. The country’s oil sector contributes around 5 percent of GDP, placing Singapore amongst the top three export refiners globally. Combine this […]
Taking the fight to climate change
For Singapore, integrating its climate change efforts and aligning them with international standards will be key to achieving several targets in the years to come. Noting that urbanisation and consumerism is leading to more competition for scarce resources, Masagos Zulkifli, Singapore’s Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, this week said that dealing with the […]
Tan See Leng warns of electricity price hike in 2022 amid ‘unprecedented storm’ in energy market
SINGAPORE — While most consumers in Singapore will not see an immediate increase in electricity prices, they may see a hike next year as energy prices increase globally, said Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng in Parliament on Monday (1 November).
Tankers thrive while oil tanks in Singapore
SINGAPORE – Dozens of oil supertankers have dropped anchor off the coast of Singapore with no clear timetable for when they may offload millions of barrels of unwanted oil they have been chartered to carry. The Asian oil-trading hub’s onshore storage facilities are at capacity, leaving tankers of varying sizes crowding the seas to serve as floating […]
TBC and AC Energy to build 1.5GW wind projects in South East Asia
Singapore’s renewable energy developer and operator The Blue Circle has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ayala Corporation’s power subsidiary AC Energy. Under the new partnership, the two companies will jointly develop and construct TBC’s pipeline of nearly 1,500MW of wind projects across South East Asia, more than 700MW of which will be built in […]