Singapore aims to be solar-powered by 2025

Singapore’s energy sector could see a high level of breakthrough, with a white paper by the Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore (SEAS) states that the country has the potential, without subsidies—to generate 2 gigawatts peak (GWp) of solar power in the next eight years.

With the country’s current solar power capacity is 140 MWp, up from just 0.4 MWp in 2008, Singapore eyes to reach the 50 megawatts peak (MWp) tagret by 2020 and 1 GWp after 2020.

In response to this, a $6.2 million research budget was granted by The Energy Market Authority (EMA) to a consortium in hopes of improving Singapore's abilities to forecast the amount of solar power the Republic generates

“If the framework is right, and if the economics work out, the speed of solar installation can be absolutely mind-blowing,” said Dr Thomas Reindl, deputy chief executive, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore

The country’s goal of promoting solar energy use paved way for the launch of a consortium, led by the National University of Singapore, and was announced by Senior Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth, and Trade and Industry Sim Ann at the opening of the Singapore International Energy Week last October 23.