Singapore to End 3,000% Power Price Spikes That Sank Companies
- City state to impose price increase limits from next month
- Many retailers exited market in 2021 after prices sky-rocketed
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Singapore plans to more aggressively regulate electricity markets as price jumps intensify, again threatening to hurt the retailers that sell it to businesses and households.
The Energy Market Authority will cap wholesale power prices from July 1 using a formula tied to natural gas and generation costs, it said in a document on its website. That comes after they jumped as much as 3,000% this year despite sharp drops in the cost of liquefied natural gas, the nation’s main fuel.