SINGAPORE, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Energy Market Authority (EMA) has granted conditional approvals to two projects to import a combined 900 megawatts (MW) of low-carbon electricity from Peninsular Malaysia, strengthening bilateral energy cooperation and supporting the city-state's decarbonization goals, the authority said Friday.
The projects, expected to begin commercial operations around 2029, will supply electricity generated from solar farms and battery energy storage systems in Johor state in southern Malaysia, the EMA said in a statement.
The approvals build on growing cross-border energy collaboration between Singapore and Malaysia, it added.
They follow an earlier conditional approval for Singapore to import 1 gigawatt (GW) of low-carbon electricity from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, as well as a joint feasibility study by Singapore Energy Interconnections, SP Group and Tenaga Nasional Berhad for a second electricity interconnection of up to 2 GW between Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia.
Low-carbon electricity imports are a key pillar of Singapore's strategy to decarbonize its power sector, which accounts for about 40 percent of the country's carbon emissions.
To date, the EMA has granted conditional approvals and conditional licenses to 13 electricity import projects from Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. ■
