Singapore

Major achievements

Singapore’s new wholesale electricity market opened on 1 January 2003.

The electricity retail market is being liberalized in phases, starting with higher electricity consumers followed by those with lower electricity consumption. Eventually, all consumers in Singapore will have the choice of buying electricity from a competitive retailer, directly from the wholesale electricity market or indirectly through the market support services licensee, SP Services.

Renewable Energy

Singapore has set the target of incinerating 100 per cent of the biomass in municipal wastes, including horticultural waste, wood waste, food waste and paper waste not recovered, reused or recycled. The heat produced from the combustion of waste is to be recovered to generate electricity, which will then be fed into the electricity grid.

For other renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics, the National Environment Agency and the Economic Development Board are providing funding for testing through the Innovation for Environmental Sustainability Fund and the Innovation in Environmental Technology (EnnovaTe) programme.

Energy efficiency

The National Energy Efficiency Committee promotes greater energy efficiency in the industrial, building, transportation and commercial sectors. Programmes include promoting clean energy (natural gas) in the energy production and industrial sector, encouraging co-generation, voluntary energy auditing programmes for energy-intensive industries, promoting green vehicles and a voluntary energy labelling scheme for home appliances.

Stakeholders

• Ministry of Trade and Industry
http://www.mti.gov.sg/public/Home/frm_MTI_default.asp

• Energy Market Authority of Singapore
http://www.ema.gov.sg

• National Environment Agency
http://app.nea.gov.sg

Further information

For more information on Singapore’s electricity wholesale and retail markets, please refer to the following web site addresses:

• http://www.ema.gov.sg

• http://www.emcsg.com

• http://www.mssl.com.sg/mssl/index.htm

For further information on the Innovation for Environmental Sustainability Fund, and the EnnovaTe programme, please refer to the following:

• http://app.nea.gov.sg/cms/htdocs/ category_sub.asp?cid=42

• http://www.sedb.com/edbcorp/sg/en_uk/index/ industry_opp/ engineering_environmental0.html

For further information on energy efficiency programmes,
please refer to http://www.neec.gov.sg/programmes/sub_programmes.shtm