Singapore eyes breakthrough in landmark regional clean-power deal by October: EMA chief

[SINGAPORE] The Republic hopes that talks on how to charge for clean electricity flowing across four South-east Asian nations could be finalised by October, paving the way for it to expand imports under a landmark regional grid deal that could deliver up to 200 megawatts (MW) of renewable power, said a top executive of the city-state’s energy authority.

The parties in the four-way agreement involving Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore are “looking through what are the transmission charges – or sometimes they call it wheeling charges – the different grid operators will impose”, Puah Kok Keong, chief executive of the Energy Market Authority (EMA), told The Business Times in an interview.

Wheeling charges refer to the cost of using power infrastructure to transfer electricity from one point to another.