Utilities

Hello, sunshine: Sunseap to supply solar power for Punggol eco-town

The solar manufacturer won the Housing Development Board’s tender to produce 2 megawatts of photovoltaic rooftop solar system.

Asian utilities to face looming debt maturities over the next 3 years

Standard & Poor's estimates that the amount averages about US$34 billion per year between 2012 and 2014.

Hello sunshine: Punggol Eco Town to try solar energy till 2013

Panasonic will install photovoltaic systems to supply renewable energy to lifts, water pump and lighting.

China set to be the largest driver of oil prices in a decade

The correlation between China's industrial growth and the WTI oil price has increased from 0.45 in May 2001-2006 to 0.65 in May 2006-2011.

International experts keen on Singapore’s water industry R&D progress

The International Advisory Panel said investments made in the industry in the last five years to contribute S$590mn of annual value-added to the...

PUB and Hyflux breaks ground for Singapore’s largest desalination project

The world’s second largest ultrafiltration pre-treatment membrane facility, incorporating Hyflux’s proprietary Kristal® ultrafiltration membranes, is...

Water security, a “work-in-progress”: DPM

DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam said cities around the world, including Singapore, will have to contend with issues in the context of urbanisation.

China faces worst-ever power shortage

Shuai Jungin, State Grid Corporation of China executive vice president, warns that China will face its worst-ever power shortage this summer.

Singapore water companies secure S$8.4bn overseas projects since 2006

New projects in the industry from 2006 seen to add S$590mn to GDP and 2,300 jobs.

Hyflux bent on capturing China market by 2014

The utility company aims to derive 40% of its total revenue from Asia's largest economy as the Chinese government gears to double its spending on...

TEE International subsidiary bags S$26.4mln project in Malaysia

TEE M&E Engineering Sdb Bhd will construct the 120Mld Bertam DAF Phase 2 Water Treatment Plant through a joint venture arrangement with Perkasa...

Hyflux gets a boost, upsizes CPS offering to S$400mln

The company's management has allocated S$200m to the public tranche as a result to the "overwhelming response" for the company's recent 6% CPS.

Hyflux signs 25-year agreement with PUB

Under the Water Purchase Agreement, Tuaspring will deliver desalinated water to PUB from 2013 to 2038.

Household electricity rates to shoot up 6.1%

Homeowners would have to pay 1.48 cents (S$0.0148) per kWh to 25.58 cents (S$0.2558) per kWh from 1 April to 30 June.