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Hydrogen and low-carbon fuels in Singapore

Production of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, hydrogen, ammonia and green methanol, plus the hydrogen-ready power designed to burn them. Buyers and the regulator read this pillar on confirmed production capacity, fuel type, project maturity (operating versus FEED or pilot) and hydrogen-readiness.

Low-carbon fuels are where Singapore's energy transition becomes a production business — the making of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel, hydrogen, ammonia and green methanol, and the hydrogen-ready power that will burn them. Singapore's strategy leans on its refining, chemicals and bunkering infrastructure to become a regional clean-fuels hub, and the anchor is already operating: Neste's renewables refinery in Tuas holds 2.6 million tonnes a year of total renewable-products capacity — of which up to 1 million tonnes a year is SAF — making it the world's largest renewable-diesel refinery and largest single SAF capacity, feeding SAF directly into Changi Airport. The buyer/regulator reads this pillar on confirmed production capacity (tonnes a year), fuel type (SAF, renewable diesel, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol), project maturity (operating versus FEED/pilot), and hydrogen-readiness for power.

The field mixes one world-class operating producer with a homegrown-led project pipeline. Neste is the operating anchor. Keppel's Sakra Cogen — Singapore's first hydrogen-compatible combined-cycle plant (600 MW, able to co-fire up to 30% hydrogen from start-up, convertible to 100%) — began commercial operations in May 2026, and Keppel (with Sumitomo) is lead developer for the EMA/MPA low-/zero-carbon ammonia project (55–65 MW ammonia-fired power plus at least 0.1 Mtpa ammonia bunkering). Sembcorp and YTL PowerSeraya (a green e-methanol pilot) round out the developers, and the homegrown palm giants Wilmar and Musim Mas are major biodiesel producers (though their plants are largely regional). The honest correction from the research: Shell's planned Singapore biofuels unit was cancelled in 2023, and ExxonMobil's activity is SAF supply/blending, not confirmed production — so the operating production story is unambiguously Neste, with a homegrown project pipeline behind it.

Also known as: low-carbon fuels · sustainable aviation fuel · SAF · renewable diesel · green hydrogen · ammonia · green methanol

Capability specifications

Fuel types
SAF, renewable diesel, hydrogen, ammonia, green methanol
Capacity measure
Tonnes a year; MW (hydrogen-ready power)
Maturity
Operating versus FEED / feasibility / pilot
Anchor
Neste Tuas renewables refinery
Power
Hydrogen-compatible CCGT and ammonia-fired plants

Companies with this capability in Singapore

  • Neste (Singapore)

    Operates its renewables refinery in Tuas — 2.6 million tonnes a year of total renewable-products capacity, of which up to one million tonnes a year is sustainable aviation fuel — the world’s largest renewable-diesel refinery and largest single SAF capacity, producing renewable diesel and SAF from waste and residues with its own hydrogen unit and SAF supply into Changi Airport.

    Website (opens Neste (Singapore) in a new tab)
  • Keppel

    An SGX-listed asset manager and operator whose infrastructure arm spans three clean-energy capabilities. In solar, Keppel Renewable Energy develops solar and cross-border clean-power, progressing an Indonesia-to-Singapore electricity import licence. In water, Keppel Seghers built and operates the 137,000 m3/day Keppel Marina East Desalination Plant and delivered the 162,800 m3/day Ulu Pandan NEWater upgrade. In waste, it runs the ~2,310 t/day Senoko and ~800 t/day Keppel Seghers Tuas waste-to-energy plants, together treating close to half of Singapore's incinerable waste.

    Website (opens Keppel in a new tab)
  • Sembcorp Industries

    An SGX-listed energy and urban-solutions group, and Singapore's largest solar owner-operator — over 535 MWp locally across rooftop, ground-mount and floating, including the 60 MWp Tengeh Reservoir floating farm and the won 86 MWp Pandan Reservoir tender, with SolarNova tranches awarded. In water, it operates the Sembcorp NEWater Plant at Changi, Singapore's fifth and largest (~228,000 m3/day), and multiple energy-efficient MBR industrial-wastewater and reclamation plants including on Jurong Island.

    Website (opens Sembcorp Industries in a new tab)
  • YTL PowerSeraya

    Operates the roughly 1,540 MW Pulau Seraya combined-cycle plant plus a smaller Jurong plant (around 13.9% market share, Geneco retail brand), and leads a consortium studying Southeast Asia’s first green e-methanol pilot plant (minimum 50,000 tonnes a year, from captured biogenic CO2 and green hydrogen).

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  • PacificLight Power

    Runs an LNG-fired combined-cycle plant of about 815 to 830 MW on Jurong Island and won the rights to a new, roughly 670 MW hydrogen-ready combined-cycle plant.

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  • Meranti Power

    A wholly owned subsidiary of the Energy Market Authority operating two hydrogen-ready open-cycle gas-turbine units of about 340 MW each (around 682 MW total) as fast-start and reserve capacity on Jurong Island.

  • Wilmar International

    A Singapore-headquartered agribusiness and the world's largest processor of edible oils and specialty fats; it refines, fractionates and blends edible oils, specialty fats, oleochemicals, sugar and flour, and expanded its Singapore edible-oils production by acquiring Cargill's Singapore edible-oil facility.

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  • Musim Mas

    A Singapore-headquartered integrated palm-oil manufacturer running refineries plus a specialty-fats and oleochemicals complex; its portfolio spans cooking oil, margarine and shortening, specialty fats and functional blends.

    Website (opens Musim Mas in a new tab)
  • Singapore Methanol

    A Singapore-headquartered green and bio-methanol developer and marketer for maritime fuel, converting Southeast Asian biomass; its two bio-methanol production projects are in Indonesia.

    Website (opens Singapore Methanol in a new tab)

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