Shell checks out advancement of utility-scale solar in Singapore as part of discharges push

• Oil and gas significant Shell is looking to increase its use solar PV in Singapore as part of plans reduced its CO2 exhausts in the country by a 3rd within a decade.

Having actually already developed more than 3MWp of solar at 3 of its Singaporean centers, the business is now discovering the addition of utility-scale PV in the city-state.

The news comes as the company discloses its passion to cut in half crude handling capability at its Pulau Bukom oil refinery in Singapore as the website change to "new low-carbon worth chains".

Aw Kah Peng, chairman of Shell Companies in Singapore, stated the company needs to advance and change, including: "We must act currently if we are to achieve our aspiration to grow with the energy transition."

Shell revealed strategies earlier this year to become a net no business by 2050, leaving it positioned to increase its renewable resource division. That target will see business offer even more items with a reduced carbon strength than its O&G staple offering, including renewable power, biofuels as well as hydrogen.

Shell has increased its footprint in Asia's PV market with the acquisition of a minority risk in Cleantech Solar in 2018 as well as a financial investment in developer Sunseap a year previously.

Singapore-based Cleantech is set to provide more than 500MW of solar power in Southeast Asia after securing what it called Asia Pacific's largest ever before environment-friendly lending for C&I roof projects in July.