The ASEAN Power Grid

The ASEAN Power Grid (APG) is a key regional initiative to help enhance the region’s vision of multilateral power trading by providing opportunities to tap low-carbon energy sources in the region and contributing to economic development and energy security and stability.

ASEAN has ongoing bilateral power trading with a total installed capacity of 7.7GW. The expansion to multilateral cross-border electricity trading and integration of power grids is a win-win arrangement. It allows exporting countries to benefit from investments and importing countries to benefit from low-carbon electricity supply.

Singapore has given conditional approvals to nine projects to import low-carbon electricity from Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Five of these projects have advanced to Conditional Licences. These projects, if realised, will form the building blocks of APG. Singapore continues to welcome more proposals to supply low-carbon electricity from the region.

Singapore has also set up two working groups – one with Lao PDR and Cambodia; the other with Vietnam and the US – to study how we can jointly accelerate the development of the APG and set up more cable interconnections across the region.