Singapore begins importing renewable energy from Laos via Thailand and Malaysia

On June 23, Singapore began importing renewable energy from Laos via Thailand and Malaysia, a move which marks the first multilateral cross-border electricity trade involving four ASEAN countries and the first renewable energy import into Singapore. Up to 100 megawatts (MW) of hydropower from Laos will be brought into Singapore via existing interconnectors built under the Lao PDR-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore Power Integration Project, an intergovernmental project set up in 2014 to study the feasibility of cross-border power trade.