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Indonesia to export clean energy to Singapore

Singapore’s renewable energy developer Quantum Power Asia Pte has agreed to advance a 5 billion USD plan in Indonesia to export solar power to Singapore, which attempts to accelerate its use of renewables.
Indonesia to export clean energy to Singapore ảnh 1A 600-kilowatt-peak (kWp) solar power plant on Gili Trawangan Island in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. (Photo: PLN)
Jakarta (VNA) – Singapore’s renewable energydeveloper Quantum Power Asia Pte has agreed to advance a 5 billion USD plan inIndonesia to export solar power to Singapore, which attemptsto accelerate its use of renewables.

Quantum and its Berlin-based partner Ib Vogt GmbH said in astatement on April 19 that they aim to construct a 3.5 gigawatt solar power facilityand 12 gigawatt-hour battery storage facility on an area of 4,000 hectares inIndonesia’s Riau Islands. The project would be connected to Singapore’s Tuasregion via a 50km undersea cable.

Singapore, which currently generates about 95 percent of itselectricity from imported gas, is targeting to import enough clean energy fromoverseas to meet 30 percent of its demand by 2035.

The project could be fully commissioned in 2032 and capableof supplying about 8 percent of Singapore’s electricity, according to thecompanies. The ambition would require the firms to deliver the world largestever solar power production and storage system./.
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