Environmental Protection and Management (Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd. — Exemption) Order 2023

No. S 514

Environmental Protection and
Management Act 1999

Environmental Protection and
Management (Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd. —
Exemption) Order 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 75 of the Environmental Protection and Management Act 1999, the National Environment Agency makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order is the Environmental Protection and Management (Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd. — Exemption) Order 2023 and comes into operation on 21 July 2023.

Definitions

2.  In this Order —

“dispatch instruction” means a dispatch instruction issued under section 9.1.3 of Chapter 5 of the market rules that —

(a) relates to a specified open cycle gas turbine; and

(b) requires the specified open cycle gas turbine to be operated at a loading level that is equal to or exceeds the loading level specified in the dispatch instruction;

“Energy Market Authority of Singapore” means the Energy Market Authority of Singapore established under the Energy Market Authority of Singapore Act 2001;

“market rules” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Electricity Act 2001;

“specified open cycle gas turbine” means any of the following open cycle gas turbines located at 31 Senoko Road, Singapore 758103:

(a) the open cycle gas turbine with the identification number SNKGT11;

(b) the open cycle gas turbine with the identification number SNKGT12;

(c) the open cycle gas turbine with the identification number SNKGT21;

(d) the open cycle gas turbine with the identification number SNKGT22.

Exemption

3.—(1)  Sub‑paragraph (2) applies if —

(a) the Energy Market Authority of Singapore has issued to Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd. a dispatch instruction for not more than 2 specified open cycle gas turbines; and

(b) Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd. operates every specified open cycle gas turbine in respect of which a dispatch instruction has been issued (called in this paragraph an activated specified open cycle gas turbine), in accordance with the dispatch instruction.

(2)  Senoko Energy Pte. Ltd. is, in respect of the operation of every activated specified open cycle gas turbine for, or for purposes connected with the production of electricity, exempt from section 12(1) of the Act but only in relation to regulation 4(1) of, read with paragraph 1(q) of the Schedule to, the Environmental Protection and Management (Air Impurities) Regulations (Rg 8) —

(a) for the period from 21 July 2023 to 31 December 2025 (both dates inclusive); but

(b) only if the operation of each activated specified open cycle gas turbine does not result in the emission of oxides of nitrogen of a concentration that before admixture with air, smoke or other gases, exceeds 700 mg/Nm³ expressed as nitrogen dioxide.

Made on 19 July 2023.

LEE CHUAN SENG

Chairperson,
National Environment Agency,
Singapore.

[C030/01/118; AG/LEGIS/SL/94A/2020/7 Vol. 1]