Marie Kelemen
Senior Consultant, DEinternational/ Trade Promotion DEinternational and Trade Promotion
+65 6433 5340 marie.kelemen@sgc.org.sg
Laos plays a special role in Southeast Asia as a major electricity exporter and aims to consolidate its position as the "battery of Southeast Asia". With more than 80 hydropower plants, it is one of the region's key hydropower locations. Singapore, meanwhile, has a structural need for imported renewable energy, and its role in the ASEAN Power Grid centres on financing, project steering and project development. This fact-finding mission connects the two markets, focusing on pumped storage power plants, as well as the retrofit and modernisation of existing run-of-river hydropower plants.
German companies are invited to join a five-day fact-finding mission comprising briefings, an expert workshop, site visits, meetings with local stakeholders and an Executive Business Roundtable. The mission concludes with a moderated workshop on a joint project and the possible formation of a consortium towards the end of 2027.
What you'll experience:
- Country briefings presented by the institutions of German Trade Promotion
- An expert workshop on developments and prospects in the Lao hydropower sector
- Site visits to the Nam Ngum 1 and Nam Leuk hydropower plants in Laos
- Group meetings with local companies and institutions that are instrumental in developing renewable regional energy projects in Laos and Singapore
- An Executive Business Roundtable in Singapore with decision-makers from regulation, finance, power trading and international organisations
- A closing workshop to discuss a specific project in Laos and the possible formation of a consortium for a follow-up project
Who should join:
German companies from the hydropower sector, particularly those active in pumped storage power plants and the retrofit and modernisation of existing run-of-river hydropower plants.
Preliminary programme:
Please note that this is a draft programme and is intended as a preliminary guide. It will be adjusted depending on the participating companies, and further aspects, companies and speakers will be included.
This mission is organised by the SGC on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) as part of the German Energy Solutions Initiative and in collaboration with RENAC and AHK Vietnam.