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RENEWABLES sources to around 11 percent of the country’s plans to have around 30% of Singapore’s
total power consumption in 2021,” Liu electricity supply from low-carbon electricity
Construction of 10GW of Yiyang, deputy secretary general of the China imports by 2035, S&P Global Platts reported.
Photovoltaic Industry Association, told the
The regulator Energy Market Authority
renewable energy projects Global Times on Wednesday. plans to invite proposals for the supply of up
to 4 GW of low-carbon electricity imports
However, the rise is still less than
in China starts anticipated. From January to September, into the country by 2035, as part of efforts to
decarbonise the power sector.
China added 25.56 GW of solar capacity,
Construction of the first batch of China’s 10 which is far below the industry’s estimation Singapore is working on a long-term
gigawatt (GW) wind and solar power projects earlier this year. plan to decarbonise its electricity supply that
has begun, marking further progress in the “There is no need to rush to install solar combines natural gas, low-carbon electricity
country’s effort to meet its net zero goals. plants in order to reach the carbon peak and imports, renewables, and low-carbon
Among all the projects for which carbon neutrality goals, as they are long-term alternatives like hydrogen and technologies
construction has started, the number in objectives,” Liu said. like carbon capture, utilisation and storage,
Northwest China’s Gansu Province is the While local governments are striving to which can reduce carbon emissions from
highest in the country, followed by Northwest carry out an energy revolution step by step, fossil fuels, EMA said.
China’s Qinghai Province. This is partly Changde in Central China’s Hunan Province By 2028, Singapore will boast the world’s
because both regions have vast rocky areas decided to halt the filing for new solar plant largest subsea power interconnector, a 4,200
and deserts, the Xinhua News Agency projects as the solar plant applications far km undersea cable carrying solar power from
reported. surpass the local power grid capacity. Darwin in northern Australia to Singapore,
As multiple countries are suffering from to meet around 15% of the city-state’s total
energy shortages, the need for clean energy power supply.
supplies has become more urgent. Low-carbon electricity imports include 100
China will push forward construction of RENEWABLES MW of electricity from Peninsular Malaysia
power supply projects in order to ease the via the existing interconnector expected
power crunch, Xinhua reported, citing Yu Singapore heads for green to commence in early-2022; a pilot project
Bing, deputy head of the National Energy to import 100 MW of non-intermittent
Administration. energy electricity from a solar farm in Pulau Bulan,
In the first nine months, more than 14 Indonesia, by around 2024; and 100 MW
million kilowatts (KW) of wind power Singapore’s journey from an international of power from Laos via the Laos-Thailand-
capacity has been put into operation, and the oil and refining hub, that has been core to its Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project,
solar power capacity hit 22 million KW, said economy for decades, to a new energy future, among others.
the report. has kicked off in earnest.
“China has achieved its goal of raising A slew of announcements at Singapore
its power generation from solar and wind International Energy Week 2021 included

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