JakartaGlobe-Sept 5
Singapore has granted five companies, including Adaro Solar International and Keppel Energy, the conditional licenses needed to bring Indonesia a step closer to exporting green electricity to the city-state. Indonesia and Singapore have been in talks for a cross-border power trading partnership. Last year, the Singaporean Energy Market Authority (EMA) gave five companies what they call “conditional approvals” for 2 gigawatts of low-carbon electricity imports from Indonesia. They were Pacific Medco Solar (0.6 gigawatts), Adaro Solar International (0.4 gigawatts), EDP Renewables APAC (0.4 gigawatts), Vanda RE (0.3 gigawatts), and Keppel Energy (0.3 gigawatts). The exported electricity would come from solar photovoltaics and battery energy storage systems manufactured in Indonesia. Singapore announced Thursday that it would give all of the aforementioned companies conditional licenses — the next document that they had to secure before they could export the green power. This highly anticipated conditional license became one of the key outcomes of the Indonesia International Sustainability Forum. According to Singapore’s Manpower Minister Tan See Leng, the companies had conducted marine surveys and feasibility studies. “[These surveys were] to obtain greater certainty for the commercial and technical conditions for their projects to succeed,” Tan, who is also the Singaporean second minister for trade and industry, told the forum in Jakarta.
Rachmat Kaimuddin, an aide to senior minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, told the press on the sidelines of the forum that the first electrons of Indonesian low-carbon power would flow into Singapore in late 2027 or by 2028. Read more at: https://jakartaglobe.id/news/indonesia-now-a-step-closer-to-exporting-electricity-to-singapore
