Energy security and sustainability key themes for EMA’s SIEW conference
By James Yau
Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) also unveiled the SIEW Academy at the launch, which is targeted to better foster global collaborations and investments around energy innovation.
Singapore’s Energy Market Authority Chief Executive Puah Kok Keong, speaking at the global launch of Singapore International Energy Week 2025. Image: GovInsider
From October 27 to 31, global energy leaders will convene at the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) 2025 to address the challenges and opportunities in the rapidly evolving energy landscape.
Every country must act now to build secure, sustainable, and affordable energy systems to power our future, said Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) Chief Executive Puah Kok Keong.
Speaking at the SIEW 2025 global launch on March 14, Puah unveiled the theme for SIEW 2025: Envisioning Energy Tomorrow, Building Systems Today.
SIEW serves as an annual platform for energy professionals, policymakers and commentators to share best practices and solutions within the global energy space, exploring topics from renewable energy and climate change to nuclear energy and power interconnectivity.
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New initiatives at SIEW 2025
At the launch event, EMA also announced that it preparing to unveil the SIEW Academy, aimed at bringing together a network of distinguished energy thought leaders who will shape the discourse on energy innovation and chart new pathways for Asia's energy future.
To commemorate the nation’s 60th anniversary in 2026, SIEW 2025 will also feature a series of new initiatives such as the SG60@SIEW Energy Showcase – a five-day long immersive experience into Singapore's envisioned energy landscape of 2065.
The exhibition will demonstrate how today's pioneering initiatives and strategic decisions will shape the nation's energy ecosystem in the next four decades, highlighting technologies and innovative energy solutions.
Puah highlighted how since 2000, the global energy demand has grown by about 50 per cent and is projected to continue to grow by another 11-18 per cent over the next 25 years.
“Global greenhouse gas emissions have jumped three-fold in the past 25 years, and the last few years were among the hottest years ever recorded. To avoid the worst outcomes of climate change will require the majority of countries to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, or 2060, and there is no easy pathway to get there.
“Technology will be key. We will need to invest much more in renewable energy and low carbon technologies,” said Puah in his welcome remarks.
Conversations and partners at SIEW 2025
Under its ambit, SIEW hosts a series of summits and forums across its five-day programme.
The 18th edition of the flagship event will commence with the high-level SIEW Summit, followed by the Singapore–International Energy Agency (IEA) Forum, Singapore–International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) High-Level Forum, as well as popular series of SIEW Energy Insights, TechTable and Thinktank Roundtables.
“The SIEW Summit will feature key discussion teams that would then delve into discussions on areas including strengthening regional incident activity, [the] role of natural gas as a transition fuel, as well as how we can build a resilient energy system,” said EMA’s Assistant Director, Serene Chua.
The co-located conferences include the Asia Clean Energy Summit (ACES), Asia Carbon Summit, Asian Downstream Summit, Asian Refining Technology Conference, Ammonia and Carbon Capture Asia, and Asia LNG Market Conference.
To further enrich the SIEW discourse at SIEW, the ACES event will inaugurate a new bioenergy track to delve into bioenergy’s pivotal role in Southeast Asia’s sustainable future, added the organiser. Bioenergy refers to energy derived from renewable biomass.
The 2024 edition of SIEW gathered over 18,000 onsite participants representing 70 countries of which over 600 energy ministers and high-level speakers were in attendance.
Puah posed the question on whether the world would be able to envision and successfully achieve a shared energy future that is secure, sustainable and prosperous.
“We can if we are able to partner industries and stakeholders to innovate and advance energy technologies, and we can do that if countries come together to facilitate energy investments and integration,” he said, concluding: “We can achieve it if we can start taking actions today to build our future energy systems.”