THE surprise collapse of Sun Cable, a company that has been in talks with Singapore for the past two years to supply 1.75 gigawatts (GW) of solar power via potentially the world’s longest submarine cable from Down Under, will not derail the city-state’s target to import clean energy, according to Singapore’s energy market regulator.

“We remain on track to meet our imports target of 4 GW by 2035. Discussions with the other request-for-proposal (RFP) participants are in progress to support the development of their projects,” said a spokesperson from the Energy Market Authority (EMA) in response to queries from The Business Times (BT).

“The EMA is unable to comment on Sun Cable’s decision to enter into voluntary administration. Besides the Sun Cable proposal, EMA has received more than 20 proposals to import electricity from countries including Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia and Thailand,” the spokesperson added.