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Sustainability in action wherever you look

Circular economy study. Renewable energy initiatives. Sustainable manufacturing. These are not mere buzzwords on Jurong Island. They are driving real change in the energy and chemicals sector, and inspiring new innovations to create a cleaner, greener and better world for future generations.

Sustainability Commitment

Transforming Jurong Island into a Sustainable Energy and Chemicals Park

Under the Green Economy pillar of the Singapore Green Plan 2030, Jurong Island is envisioned to be transformed into a sustainable energy and chemicals park.

In line with this, the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) has released a report outlining our long-term aspirations and targets, as well as the key initiatives and enablers to support this transformation.

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Circular Economy Study

Circular Economy: Reducing waste at a system level

With its businesses so tightly integrated, Jurong Island presents an excellent opportunity for JTC to build a more robust circular economy.

Businesses on the island are already tapping on one another for supplies of feedstock and utilities. If such synergies can be extended at a system level, businesses can also optimise resources and reduce waste, forming a circular ecosystem that is environmentally and economically appealing.

Circular Economy Study

Circular economy: Reducing waste at a system level

JTC rallied together 50 companies across the island for a Jurong Island Circular Economy Study, to share data about chemical waste, water and energy usage.

The synergies discovered were promising. Circular ecosystems enable businesses to save costs by reducing resource intake, and be friendlier to the planet by lowering waste output. It’s a sustainable model for the future, and a clarion call to businesses to embrace the circular economy and the multi-disciplinary approach to innovation that it demands.

Goh Koon Eng, Vice President, Commercial Chevron Oronite

” The (Circular Economy) study will enable us to look beyond individual companies’ efforts, and from a system level to discover opportunities for further resource optimisation as a business community.”

Goh Koon Eng, Former Vice President, Commercial Chevron Oronite

JTC Sustainability Innovation Calls

Jurong Island Innovation Challenge

Join, win and enjoy support and funding for solutions in energy, water, emission and waste management.

Jurong Island Renewable Energy Request for Proposals

Develop and testbed innovations in clean energy on Jurong Island.

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Initiatives by Businesses

Keppel and Singapore LNG home in on sustainability for their new extraction facility

Can't avoid carbon when extracting natural gas liquids? Not any more, according to Keppel and Singapore LNG. Designed into their new facility is the use of "cold energy", a sustainable approach that promises significant carbon reduction.

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Initiatives by Businesses

End-to-end sustainable manufacturing? Arkema's bio-factory makes this possible

Created to prove that sustainable manufacturing can be more wholistic, Arkema's new plant on Jurong Island produces high-performance bio-based polymers that can be used as raw materials, right at the start of manufacturing processes.

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Initiatives by Businesses

Evonik innovates to keep stomachs full while strengthening food resilience

As the world turns to more meat as a food source due to falling crop yields, demand rises for animal feeds that are high in protein yet sustainably produced. Evonik delivers on both fronts with its innovative new methionine plant on Jurong Island.

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JTC SolarLand Programme

Turning land into an energy-giving farm

On Jurong Island, even vacant land can contribute to environmental sustainability.

Our SolarLand programme utilises temporarily vacant land and transforms it into a solar farm that generates clean energy to supplement Singapore's electricity grid.

In 2023, JTC awarded a tender for its largest solar deployment, which will cover 60 ha of interim vacant land and the rooftops of five JTC buildings. This will increase the total solar generation capacity on Jurong Island from 25.2MWp to 142.2MWp, equivalent to powering over 33,400 4-room HDB flats annually and reducing over 63,220 tonnes of carbon emission per year.

Initiatives like this put us on the fast track in moving Singapore towards renewable energy sources. JTC’s goal of contributing 100 Megawatt-peak (MWp) of solar power by 2030 might be ambitious, but the success of the SolarLand programme on Jurong Island reassures us that it’s a future we can confidently look forward to.

Greening Efforts

From growing greener, to growing greenery

More greenery not only improves Jurong Island’s aesthetics, it lowers the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, making it a more pleasant place to work in.

Businesses know this well, which is why they’re working with JTC and the National Parks Board (NParks), and contributing funds to plant 34,000 more trees on the island.

It’s a community-driven programme that creates a more attractive working environment for everyone. To learn how you can help make JTC’s estates greener and more comfortable, read more about sustainability at Industry Connect.

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