S'pore will double electricity imports through regional grid after deal extension

Project is crucial to advancing Asean power grid, economic community: Keppel, EMA

- Cheryl Tan

Singapore will be doubling its electricity imports capacity via a regional power grid, after an extension of the multilateral deal which enabled Singapore to import hydropower from Laos via Thailand and Malaysia - initially hit a roadblock.

Additional energy supply will come from Malaysia, increasing the total electricity import capacity to 200MW via the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore (LTMS) power integration project, up from 100MW currently, said Keppel and the Energy Market Authority (EMA) in a joint statement on Sept 20.

However, it is not clear whether the electricity will come from renewable sources.

In 2022, Singapore started importing up to 100MW of hydropower from Laos via existing inter-connectors between the four countries.

But on Sept 20, EMA would only say that the new development will "strengthen grid resilience and promote energy integration to meet the rising electricity demand in the region".