Sharanya Pillai
ENERGY CORRESPONDENT
Sharanya Pillai is a correspondent covering the regional energy market, with a special interest in clean energy trade in Asean and the rise of nuclear power. She has also penned opinion pieces and the weekend column Off Tangent, covering the weird and wonderful in science, psychology and beyond.
Singapore’s only active coal plant to transition to biomass by 2028
This will put the Republic 22 years ahead of its deadline to phase out unabated coal
Singapore future-proofing its grid to meet higher energy demand from EVs, data centres
The intermittency of solar and wind power introduces new operational challenges for the grid
Sunseap founder’s firm teams up with Chinese nuclear giant on Indonesian solar import project
Frank Phuan’s Equator Renewables Asia is set to import clean power from the Riau Islands into Singapore
Green data centres: Singapore companies call for new inter-agency body, innovative financing
Other suggestions include setting up a central agency to procure green energy, similar to Singapore GasCo
Jurong Island’s ‘balancing act’: Going green while sustaining jobs and growth
The petrochemical hub’s transition comes amid the oil down-cycle and a looming carbon tax hike
Singapore to build 700MW data centre park on Jurong Island, pilot biomethane imports: Tan See Leng
Some 20 hectares of land will be set aside for the low-carbon data centre park
Nuclear power: Singapore to partner two US institutes, releases background paper
Clean energy imports from Indonesia are also expected to commence within the decade
Singapore grants conditional approval to import Sarawak hydropower; companies studying new 2GW energy link with Malaysia
The deals contribute to Singapore’s plans to import 6 GW of clean power by 2035
Seatrium stays bullish on green bets despite axing of US$475 million wind project
The offshore and marine player is also exploring ‘moonshot’ projects such as a floating nuclear platform
Singapore bets on ‘giant batteries’ as it guns for clean energy imports
As the development of the Asean Power Grid ramps up, interest in energy storage systems is ‘accelerating’