Sembcorp Marine & SP Group integrate GET at Tuas

Solar panels to supply nearly 60% of power for Yard’s steel fabrication facility at peak load

Singapore, 29 June 2021 – Sembcorp Marine and SP Group (SP) signed a partnership agreement to enhance the sustainability credentials of Sembcorp Marine’s flagship Tuas Boulevard Yard (TBY or Yard). To lower Sembcorp Marine’s carbon footprint, SP will be commissioned to deploy 4.0 MWp¹ of solar energy across seven rooftops at TBY. The solar energy generated will be integrated and optimised via SP’s Green Energy Tech (GET™) to provide intelligent and reliable energy management to realise significant energy savings.

In 2017, both companies inked an agreement to develop and implement a digital energy solution, with the installation of an initial 4.5 MWp of rooftop solar panels at TBY’s steel fabrication facility.

Today’s new agreement is an extension of both companies’ successful partnership. With the additional rooftop solar installation, TBY’s new solar power capacity of 8.5 MWp will deliver up to 10,400 MWh² of electricity annually – enough to power more than 2,300 fourroom flats per year. The GET^TM smart energy management solution leverages Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), sensors and advanced metering infrastructure to manage the generation, and monitor the usage and storage of the solar power. The system optimises the Yard’s energy consumption for greener operations, resulting in significant utilities savings. The integrated energy solution is expected to effectively provide close to 60% of electricity consumed by TBY’s steel fabrication facility at peak load and avoid annual carbon emissions by more than 4,200 tonnes, equivalent to taking approximately 1,300 cars off the road.

_{¹ MWp or Megawatt-peak is a unit of measure of nominal power output for a photovoltaic device such as a solar cell}

_{² MWh or Megawatt-hour is a unit of measure of electric energy (one million watts of power generated/used per hour)}