{"id":16640,"date":"2021-07-30T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/30\/tuas-power-partners-with-nefin-to-bid-for-100mw-electricity-import-from-malaysia-and-explores-solutions-to-address-power-intermittency-from-clean-energy\/"},"modified":"2021-07-30T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T02:30:00","slug":"tuas-power-partners-with-nefin-to-bid-for-100mw-electricity-import-from-malaysia-and-explores-solutions-to-address-power-intermittency-from-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/30\/tuas-power-partners-with-nefin-to-bid-for-100mw-electricity-import-from-malaysia-and-explores-solutions-to-address-power-intermittency-from-clean-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuas Power partners with NEFIN to bid for 100MW electricity import from Malaysia and explores solutions to address power intermittency from clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 30 July 2021 -Tuas&#13;<br \/>\nPower, Singapore&#8217;s market leader in power generation and electricity retailing,&#13;<br \/>\nsigned a Memorandum of Understanding earlier in June with NEFIN, a leading&#13;<br \/>\nsolar photovoltaic developer and investor in carbon neutrality solutions, to&#13;<br \/>\njointly bid for the 100 megawatts (100MW) of zero-carbon electricity import&#13;<br \/>\nfrom Malaysia into Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>To support the Singapore Government&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nmove to enhance energy security through leveraging on regional power grids, Tuas&#13;<br \/>\nPower and NEFIN are participating in this initiative with the aim to help&#13;<br \/>\novercome the challenges of clean energy import and to develop best practices&#13;<br \/>\nfor the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Michael Wong, Chief Operating&#13;<br \/>\nOfficer of Tuas Power, said, &#8220;Tuas Power is taking a wholistic view to find a&#13;<br \/>\nsustainable and reliable blend of electricity generated from renewable and&#13;<br \/>\nfuel-based sources to feed into the national grid. Arising from our sustainable&#13;<br \/>\nenergy eco-system approach, Tuas Power is actively exploring the combined use&#13;<br \/>\nof solar power and other renewable sources or low-carbon solutions to achieve a&#13;<br \/>\nzero-carbon electricity import. At the same time, we are exploring solutions&#13;<br \/>\nthat address the intermittency of solar power during non-generating hours.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Tuas Power is Singapore&#8217;s leading&#13;<br \/>\nelectricity retailer, and is committed to bringing cleaner, more cost-competitive&#13;<br \/>\nenergy to its customers. With its knowledge and experience, Tuas Power has&#13;<br \/>\nhelped them develop and implement many energy efficient programmes. It has a&#13;<br \/>\nlarge pool of customers from the data centre, semiconductor and petrochemical&#13;<br \/>\nindustries who are interested to take up the clean energy import.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bor Hung&#13;<br \/>\nChong, NEFIN&#8217;s Head of Business Development and Managing Director for NEFIN&#13;<br \/>\nMalaysia, commented, &#8220;NEFIN is a market leader in distributed solar project&#13;<br \/>\ndevelopment in Malaysia. We have a track record of many customers who have&#13;<br \/>\nsigned up to 20 years of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with us, and we are&#13;<br \/>\nexcited to partner Tuas Power to foray into electricity imports into Singapore.&#13;<br \/>\nIf successful in our joint bid, it will allow NEFIN to bring its extensive&#13;<br \/>\nexperience in implementation of renewable energy projects and provision of&#13;<br \/>\ncarbon-neutral solutions to sustain the energy landscape of Singapore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>NEFIN Malaysia is a Malaysian company&#13;<br \/>\nunder the project development arm of the wider NEFIN Group and specialises in&#13;<br \/>\nproject development and implementation of renewable energy projects in the&#13;<br \/>\nSoutheast Asia region, with Malaysia as one of NEFIN Group&#8217;s key markets. NEFIN&#13;<br \/>\nMalaysia is a market leader in providing zero-carbon solutions, including distributed&#13;<br \/>\nsolar project development and has developed several iconic projects such as the&#13;<br \/>\nlargest commercial solar PPA in Malaysia of more than 10 selected Lotus&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\n(formerly TESCO) stores in its first phase and the completion of the first&#13;<br \/>\nsolar PV project for Puratos Group in Malaysia. NEFIN Malaysia also provides carbon&#13;<br \/>\nneutrality related consulting and technical advisory services for its clients.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-07-30\/88319\/tuas-power-partners-with-nefin-to-bid-for-100mw-electricity-import-from-malaysia-and-explores-solutions-to-address-power-intermittency-from-clean-energy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 30 July 2021 -Tuas&#13; Power, Singapore&#8217;s market leader in power generation and electricity retailing,&#13; signed a Memorandum of Understanding earlier in June with NEFIN, a leading&#13; solar photovoltaic developer and investor in carbon neutrality solutions, to&#13; jointly bid for the 100 megawatts (100MW) of zero-carbon electricity import&#13; from Malaysia into Singapore.\u00a0 &#13; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}