Senior/Assistant Director, Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division
What The Role Is
METI’s Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division plays a key role in creating an energy system that is secure, resilient, cost-competitive, and ready to transition to a low carbon future. Our work keeps the lights on today, and builds the power system for tomorrow.
Energy is an existential issue for Singapore. We import almost all our energy supply and are exposed to global energy market movements. Recent energy crises due to the war in Ukraine and ongoing conflict in the Middle East have upended the global energy ecosystem. The climate crisis compels all countries to accelerate their pace of decarbonisation, even as they struggle with energy costs and unpredictable supply chain shocks. At the same time, our energy system is an enabler for economic growth, as speed to power is critical to capture strategic and economically significant investments.
Amidst this backdrop, Singapore needs a stable, reliable, and cost-competitive energy system that safeguards our economic competitiveness and dynamism.
What You Will Be Working On
METI’s Energy and Carbon (E&C) Cluster leads initiatives to reduce emissions and drive the transition to a low-carbon economy, while ensuring energy security and cost-competitiveness, and enabling Singapore to sustain economic growth. Officers in this cluster develop energy and carbon markets, plan energy infrastructure, build Singapore’s capabilities to harness low-carbon energy sources, and manage emission trajectories and carbon budgets. You will collaborate with stakeholders across Government, industry, and international partners to support sustainable economic transformation and green growth through strategic planning, policy analysis, and partnerships.
The Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division within the E&C Cluster takes the lead in ensuring energy remains a key enabler of Singapore’s competitiveness, climate goals and national resilience via the five ‘Cs’:
We are looking for driven and capable individuals who thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, have a keen interest in energy markets and policies, are adept at working with multiple stakeholders within and outside the public sector, and are equipped with the following qualities and competencies:
METI’s Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division plays a key role in creating an energy system that is secure, resilient, cost-competitive, and ready to transition to a low carbon future. Our work keeps the lights on today, and builds the power system for tomorrow.
Energy is an existential issue for Singapore. We import almost all our energy supply and are exposed to global energy market movements. Recent energy crises due to the war in Ukraine and ongoing conflict in the Middle East have upended the global energy ecosystem. The climate crisis compels all countries to accelerate their pace of decarbonisation, even as they struggle with energy costs and unpredictable supply chain shocks. At the same time, our energy system is an enabler for economic growth, as speed to power is critical to capture strategic and economically significant investments.
Amidst this backdrop, Singapore needs a stable, reliable, and cost-competitive energy system that safeguards our economic competitiveness and dynamism.
What You Will Be Working On
METI’s Energy and Carbon (E&C) Cluster leads initiatives to reduce emissions and drive the transition to a low-carbon economy, while ensuring energy security and cost-competitiveness, and enabling Singapore to sustain economic growth. Officers in this cluster develop energy and carbon markets, plan energy infrastructure, build Singapore’s capabilities to harness low-carbon energy sources, and manage emission trajectories and carbon budgets. You will collaborate with stakeholders across Government, industry, and international partners to support sustainable economic transformation and green growth through strategic planning, policy analysis, and partnerships.
The Energy Markets and Infrastructure Division within the E&C Cluster takes the lead in ensuring energy remains a key enabler of Singapore’s competitiveness, climate goals and national resilience via the five ‘Cs’:
- Confidence. Ensure our system resilience continues to be a source of confidence for our people, through multiple lines of defence to safeguard energy security, resilience, and reliability. These include diversifying our fuel sources and strengthening our fuel reserves.
- Competitiveness. Harness energy to bolster our economic competitiveness, through scaling our generation and grid capacity to meet growing needs and attract electricity-intensive investments. This also involves reviewing our energy system planning models and leveraging flexibility assets to secure speed to power while maintaining system reliability.
- Carbon. Ensure our power system infrastructure and electricity market are ready for a low-carbon future to meet our climate commitments. Infrastructure and markets are critical to ensuring Singapore can pursue every possible pathway to develop a diversified and affordable portfolio of low-carbon energy options.
- Connectivity. Deepen connectivity with our partners and ensure new imported energy sources can enter Singapore’s grid and electricity market.
- Costs. Keep costs in check to ensure we strike the right balance in the energy transition. This involves right-pricing energy and infrastructure, and ensuring our market frameworks continue to support a competitive and commercially sustainable generation sector.
- Formulate robust strategies and policies to regulate and develop the gas and electricity sectors. This involves working with key stakeholders to develop and implement regulatory and market structures, to strike a balance among our objectives of economic competitiveness, energy security and environmental sustainability.
- Formulate and review strategies and policies to enhance our energy security by diversifying Singapore’s energy sources, including those for electricity and gas imports.
- Formulate and review policies and strategies to develop supporting enablers for the electricity and gas sectors, including infrastructure and financing.
- Develop and implement communications and engagement plans to support electricity and gas market changes.
- Monitor developments in global energy markets and analyse implications for domestic energy policies.
We are looking for driven and capable individuals who thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, have a keen interest in energy markets and policies, are adept at working with multiple stakeholders within and outside the public sector, and are equipped with the following qualities and competencies:
- Strong analytical skills; expertise and/or experience in quantitative analysis, economics or engineering would be an advantage
- 0 to 6 years of relevant experience in policy, sustainability and energy-related fields
- Ability to pick up new content areas quickly, and assimilate knowledge from a wide variety of sources to provide policy recommendations
- Comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders, both within and beyond the public service, which requires strong interpersonal, organisational and communication skills
- Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team
- Driven, meticulous and resourceful