In May, homes in Singapore used more solar power than in any month since March 2024. Also, Singapore brought in more clean (renewable) energy from other countries for the third month in a row. This helped increase the total share of renewable energy in Singapore’s electricity supply to 2.58%, according to data from the National Electricity Market of Singapore.
Trading electricity with nearby countries is important for the region to use less fossil fuel, especially now that data centres are using more and more power.
Singapore plans to get 6 gigawatts (GW) of clean electricity from other countries by 2035. That would be about one-third of the country’s total electricity needs. Singapore has limited space for solar or wind power, so it mostly depends on gas power, which currently makes up about 95% of its energy.
From January to May, Singapore brought in 122.7 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity. That made up 0.52% of all the electricity used. Singapore didn’t import any electricity during the same months last year and only started small imports late in 2024.
The amount of imported electricity has gone up for three months in a row, and it is replacing some energy that used to come from fossil fuels.
Singapore’s overall electricity use increased by 0.4% in the first five months of the year.
Singapore currently has two electricity-sharing agreements with other countries:
One is the 200 MW LTMS (Lao PDR–Thailand–Malaysia–Singapore) project.
The other is a 50 MW pilot project with Malaysia’s power company, Tenaga Nasional Berhad, called ENEGEM.
In October, the head of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) said the LTMS agreement had not yet been extended, as they were waiting for Thailand to confirm some costs for sending power through their country.
On Friday, EMA said that talks are still ongoing to improve the LTMS deal, but didn’t share more details.
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