Singapore

Doing nothing is not an option.

Discussions and dialogues between peers and professionals, at times, centre around the question:

A free market where the present lowest cost fuel solution wins. per se and per definition.

Doing nothing is not an option.

GMR will exit its first IPP outside India by selling the entire 70% stake in its Singapore plant.

Senoko Energy started up two natural gas-fired power plants with 862 megawatt capacity in Singapore.

At least according to BG Group.

Needs 2,500 technical personnel to remedy problem.

My friends at Asian Power asked if I would do another article so I decided to do a follow up to my May article on Rotating Equipment Condition Monitoring and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM), in May 2012.

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong recently stated at the inaugural Singapore Summit that for Singapore to continue on its growth trajectory, the country has to evolve into a smart city.

Largest solar installation at one location.

Thanks to rapid financial and energy growth.

Singapore’s energy intensive data centers are now governed by a green rating scheme that intends to make them more energy efficient.

As customers increasingly push to adopt condition-based maintenance for Gas-Insulated Substations (GIS), new opportunities are arising for periodic or permanent measurement of partial discharge.

With its ever growing energy demand, Asia has a great potential to utilize renewable energy resources towards a more secure energy future. Renewable energy will play an important role in meeting high energy demand growth and in addressing environmental concerns from the increase in fossil-fuelled power generation. However, the potential for a large scale shift from the use of fossil fuels to renewable energy for electricity generation remains a highly debated issue in many Asian countries. This is not without reason as large scale implementation of renewable energy will pose significant challenges to legacy power systems due to temporal fluctuations, geographical dispersion of renewable energy sources and inadequacy of the existing power grid. Fossil fuel resources, once harnessed, may be transported easily and used at power plants. Fuel supply is largely predictable and both base load and peak load power plants may be supported reliably (e.g. coal-fired power plants are suitable for base load power plants while gas-fired power plants function effectively as peaking plants). On the other hand, renewable power plants (wind, solar and hydro) are highly dependent on weather conditions and locations. Areas with ample renewable energy resources are generally remote. It is therefore crucial to comprehensively analyse the efficiency and impact of remote electricity transmission networks. Any expansion of the existing grid will require efficient planning and operational improvement over the existing network. This creates opportunities for innovative monitoring, control, communication, and self-healing technologies to enhance grid operation.

Total plant automation for the power generation and water industries.