SINGAPORE: YTL PowerSeraya Pte Ltd (YTLPS), a unit of YTL Power International Bhd, has been appointed for a two-year trial to import 100 megawatts (MW) of electricity from Peninsular Malaysia.

       This followed a request for proposal process initiated in March 2021, according to the republic’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) yesterday.

       The energy market regulator said YTLPS was selected as its proposal was “best able to meet EMA’s requirements to trial electricity imports via the existing interconnector.”“This is expected to commence in early 2022,” said EMA in a statement issued here. YTLPS’s power generation business has a licensed generating capacity of 3,100MW and sits on Jurong Island –Singapore’s oil, gas, and petrochemicals hub.

       Singapore is also working on the Laos-Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore power integration project to import up to 100MW of power from Laos to Singapore. — Bernama