JTC commits S$4 million to support Jurong Innovation District tenants’ carbon-saving solutions

JTC, with support from Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG), launched an innovation call to support the decarbonisation efforts of Jurong Innovation District (JID) tenants and lessees, it announced on Wednesday (Jun 19). 

About S$4 million has been set aside under the innovation call. It will support solutions aimed at lowering JID tenants’ energy and water consumption, reducing waste output, and decreasing the district’s carbon footprint. 

Tenants and lessees, along with public-sector agencies and private-sector solution providers, will co-develop, test and implement solutions together at the new Decarbonisation Living Lab @ JID Innovation Call. 

The lab will be used to trial new “carbon-saving innovations” at JID, while setting its sights on replicating and scaling up their deployment. JTC will crowdsource proposals through the innovation call.

A multi-agency panel, which includes the industrial landlord and EnterpriseSG, will evaluate the proposals and plans to award the projects by early 2025. 

JTC said a majority of its total carbon emissions are classified as Scope 3, which hail from sources not owned or controlled by itself, but could come from tenants and lessees. 

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Reducing Scope 3 emissions requires coordination with upstream and downstream supply-chain vendors and service providers. The living lab and innovation call aims to tap JTC’s customers, who have firsthand knowledge of their sustainability challenges and consumption patterns. 

It also revealed plans to replicate the model in other estates to reduce its Scope 3 emissions, if successful. 

“With the innovation call, JID will be the district where innovative ideas can be tested for proof of concept, deployed at the building or district scale, before reaching commercialisation scale,” said John Kiong, acting director of JTC’s sustainability department.