Singapore’s Energy Market Authority has added two Johor electricity-import projects to its conditional approval list, naming Sembcorp Utilities’ Johor project and Southern Solar Alliance in an official register updated on 7 August. The update takes EMA’s total number of conditionally approved low-carbon import projects to 13 and gives Singapore and Malaysia another concrete step toward a more connected regional power market.
What EMA’s register now shows
The official register lists Sembcorp Utilities’ Johor project and Southern Solar Alliance alongside projects sourcing electricity from Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. EMA says Singapore aims to import around 6 gigawatts of low-carbon electricity by 2035, roughly one-third of expected demand then.
Conditional approval is an early regulatory milestone. It means EMA has preliminarily assessed a proposal as sufficiently attractive and suitable for further development; it does not authorise construction, confirm project financing or permit electricity to begin flowing into Singapore.
Why the Johor link matters
For Southeast Asia’s innovation economy, the update matters because data centres, advanced manufacturing and electrified services need larger supplies of lower-carbon power. Cross-border projects can widen the pool of renewable generation available to Singapore while creating investment opportunities in Johor’s solar, storage and grid infrastructure.
What remains unresolved
Developers still need to work through technical design, grid integration, commercial agreements, financing and approvals in the relevant jurisdictions. EMA says all project developers must coordinate with Singapore Energy Interconnections to ensure compatibility with landing sites and the national grid.
The register does not disclose final tariffs, investment values, construction dates or a guaranteed commercial-operation timetable for the two Johor projects. Those details should be treated as unresolved until the regulator or project companies publish binding approvals and agreements.
Source note
SEA Connect based this brief on EMA’s official regional-power-grids register, which was last updated on 7 August 2026. The article reports only the regulator-confirmed project status and does not present conditional approval as a completed import, construction decision or financing commitment.