[B] REDUCING ENERGY CONSUMPTION THROUGH DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT

In Singapore, electricity demand is expected to grow with increasing digitalisation and electrification. As part of EMA’s efforts to catalyse innovations in energy use reduction and optimisation, demand-side management technologies and approaches are key focus areas to influence consumption behaviour and energy optimisation. 

Artificial intelligence, IoT and Big Data are set to play key roles in the energy sector, especially in demand-side management. In particular, the launch of the Open Electricity Market (OEM) by EMA has allowed the entry of new independent market players, and make possible new electricity retail models through the nation-wide rollout of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). The pervasiveness of AMI meters present opportunities for demand-side management solutions to reduce energy usage. Other opportunities include peak load shifting, where energy consumption can be shifted from peak to non-peak hours. This provides system-wide benefits by reducing the maximum load that the energy system needs to cater for, resulting in less generation and grid infrastructure needed.

EMA seeks companies to design and develop innovative solutions to optimise energy consumption through demand-side management. The proposed solutions could cover but not limited to solutions relating to technologies in smart meters, IoT / communications solutions, sensors, customer-side energy analytics, AI and digitalisation.

Solutions should adapt to existing installations and infrastructure i.e. brownfield deployments / retrofitting.

Solutions should not be available ‘off-the-shelf’.

The solution should achieve overall reduction of electricity usage on systems where solution is implemented.

Maximum duration of projects should not exceed 2 years.