Singapore has started importing renewable energy from Laos via Thailand and Malaysia under the Lao PDR-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project (LTMS-PIP), marking the first multilateral cross-border electricity trading involving four ASEAN nations and the first renewable energy import into Singapore.
Under a two-year power purchase deal signed between Keppel Electric and Laos’ state-owned Électricité du Laos (EDL), Singapore has received 100 MW of renewable hydropower last week, which represents roughly 1.5% of Singapore’s peak electricity demand in 2020, or enough to power approximately 144,000 four-room HDB flats for a year.
