A general view of Shell's Pulau Bukom petrochemical complex in Singapore July 15, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)
Singapore (VNA) –Royal Dutch Shell PLC is considering to install solar panels to power its PulauBukom refinery site in Singapore, according to the company.
The Pulau Bukom site includesa 500,000 barrels-per-day refinery, which is Shell’s largest wholly ownedrefinery.
The oil and gas company has been exploring solarinstallations for its other sites in Singapore as part of its plans to improveenergy efficiency and reduce carbon footprint, Shell said in a statement.
The firm is installing solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the roofs of seven lubricant manufacturing plants in China, India, Italy, Singapore andSwitzerland, the firm noted.
It has so far identified three manufacturing andlogistics sites in Singapore’s Tuas, Jurong Island and Pandan to install asolar PV power generation system,with a combined capacity of about three megawatts.
Thefirst and largest of the three Shell solar farms, which will go live nextmonth, will have more than 6,500 panels placed atop a lubricant plant in Tuas.
Thesolar farm is expected to produce about 3,300 megawatt hours of renewableenergy every year.
Thegenerated solar energy will be used to help power operations at the Tuaslubricants plant, the company said, adding this can result in the avoidance ofa third of the greenhouse gas emissions from the plant’s electricity use, or approximately1,200 tonnes on a carbon dioxide-equivalent basis per year. This is also equivalentto taking about 700 cars off the road for one year.
Installations at Shell’s sites in Pandan and JurongIsland are expected to start in late 2019 and early 2020, respectively.
As part of its efforts to trial low carbon solutions,Shell has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Energy Market Authorityof Singapore (EMA) to jointly work on spurring the adoption of energy storagesystems. This could include piloting commercially viable business models withinnovative solutions that integrate storage systems and solar power to Shell'ssites in Singapore. –VNA
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A general view of Shell's Pulau Bukom petrochemical complex in Singapore July 15, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)
