Electricity Demand Drawn from Grid versus On-site Generation and Proportion of Green Energy Commitment from Local Renewable Generation versus Imported Sources for DC-CFA2

40 Mr Chua Kheng Wee Louis asked the Minister for Trade and Industry (Energy and Industry) regarding data centres awarded under the second Data Centre-Call for Application (DC-CFA2) exercise (a) what is the amount of electricity demand to be drawn from the grid versus on-site generation when commissioned, and their share of the total data centre demand; (b) what proportion of their green energy commitment will come from Singapore-based renewable generation, versus imported electricity or market-based instruments; and (c) how will this be verified.

Dr Tan See Leng: The data centres which have been provisionally awarded capacity under the second Data Centre Call for Application (DC-CFA2) exercise will have a combined capacity of 200 megawatts (MW). This will represent around 12% of Singapore's total data centre capacity. The electricity demand of the data centres will be primarily drawn from the national grid, supplemented by on-site solar.

More than half of this capacity will be powered by Singapore-based low-carbon power generation from building‑integrated/building-applied photovoltaics (BIPV/BAPV) and fuels, such as biomethane, ammonia and hydrogen.

These data centres will be required, as a condition of their capacity support, to report their overall electricity consumption and substantiate the proportion of this electricity consumption that is generated from low-carbon sources to the Infocomm Media Development Authority and the Economic Development Board.