Speaking on a panel at SIEWConnects@OCBC on Aug 22, Heng points to a “digital future” with greater use of artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and robotics — happening alongside Asia’s growth in income and its middle class.
As a percentage of total energy supply, clean energy supply has hovered around 12.5% for the past 15 years. Despite massive growth in solar energy, it has hardly made a dent, says Alan Heng, CEO of Singapore GasCo.
“One of the reasons is because humankind has always been better at finding use for energy than ways to make more energy. Now, that is going to continue,” says the chief of Singapore’s three-month-old government-owned central gas company.
