Keppel, ExxonMobil to collaborate on low-carbon energy solutions in Singapore
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Keppel aims to use low-carbon hydrogen for a power plant on Jurong Island.
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SINGAPORE – Keppel Corp’s infrastructure arm, Keppel Infrastructure, will partner ExxonMobil Asia Pacific to develop access to low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia solutions for scalable commercial and industrial applications in Singapore.
Both parties have inked a memorandum of understanding, they announced on Thursday.
The agreement aligns with the Government’s national strategy for hydrogen to meet up to half of Singapore’s power needs by 2050. Currently, natural gas meets most of the nation’s power generation demand.
The companies will collaborate to address the local authorities’ call to develop low- or zero-carbon power generation and bunkering facilities on Jurong Island.
Keppel also aims to use low-carbon hydrogen for Singapore’s first hydrogen-ready, 600-megawatt advanced combined cycle power plant on Jurong Island. The Keppel Sakra Cogen plant is expected to operate with at least 30 per cent hydrogen and will have the capability of shifting to run entirely on that energy source.
The plant is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2026.
Keppel is also conducting a feasibility study on developing a power plant that can use ammonia directly as a fuel on Jurong Island.
ExxonMobil’s Asia-Pacific president for low-carbon solutions, Mr Irtiza Sayyed, said the partnership with Keppel is an example of providing “critical, scalable solutions to reduce CO2 emissions in support of (ExxonMobil’s) and Singapore’s net-zero ambitions”.
