Five Singapore-based consortia have received a total of S$10 million in funding as part of the first Smart Energy Challenge (SEC).
The Energy Market Authority (EMA) said the SEC, launched last November, aims to support the development of new technologies and solutions to strengthen Singapore’s energy competitiveness, efficiency and security.
The inaugural projects focus on three areas - power generation, energy for transport, and energy efficiency for industry.
The recipients are CPower vTrium (CPvT); Nanyang Technological University (NTU) with IUT Global; National University of Singapore (NUS) with ST Kinetics; Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR with SP PowerGrid and AddValue Technologies; and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Lawrence Wong, chief executive of EMA said: “The SEC will harness the development capabilities of our tertiary institutions and industry players to bridge the commercialisation gap and bring new inventions to market.
“We hope to see more innovative Singapore-based energy solutions coming out as a result of this initiative, not only to address Singapore’s energy needs but also to capture regional and global opportunities.”
Dr Zhou Jianying from Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR), one of the fund recipients, said: “Our project aims to develop a security architecture blueprint for strengthening the power grid infrastructure. We look forward to working with SP PowerGrid, who is well known for its world class grid network performance.
“Besides the blueprint, the SEC award will also enable us to develop tamper-resistant devices that can be connected safely to the grid.”
The inaugural Smart Energy Challenge attracted 88 proposals from tertiary institutions, research entities and companies.
All proposals were reviewed by an inter-agency technical expert evaluation panel and an advisory committee.
Funding under the SEC is made available from EMA’s S$25 million Energy Research Development Fund.
