Singapore begins importing renewable energy from Laos via Thailand, Malaysia


Up to 100 megawatts of hydropower from Laos will be brought into Singapore. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The Republic on Thursday (June 23) began importing renewable energy from Laos via Thailand and Malaysia - a move that marks the first multilateral cross-border electricity trade involving four Asean countries and the first renewable energy import into Singapore.

Up to 100 megawatts (MW) of hydropower from Laos will be brought into Singapore using existing interconnectors under the Lao PDR-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project - an inter-governmental project set up in 2014 to study the feasibility of cross-border power trade.

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