The purpose is to encourage companies in the industrial sector to carry out energy assessments for their existing facilities to identify potential areas for energy efficiency improvement.
NG is an Accredited ESCO that can assist with this grant.
Purpose
Encourages companies in the industrial sector* to carry out energy assessments for their existing facilities to identify potential areas for energy efficiency improvement.
Eligibility criteria
- The owner or operator of the manufacturing facility must be registered in Singapore.
- The industrial facility for which the energy assessment is being carried out must be located in Singapore.
- Energy audits of relevant business activities of registered corporations under the Energy Conservation Act are not eligible for application from 1 Jan 2020.
- The capabilities of the selected Consultants** should be thoroughly assessed to ensure that they match the needs and requirements of your facility.
- Companies must have conducted a preliminary energy assessment at the time of application.
- The detailed energy assessment must not have commenced at the time of application. The company must not have signed a contract with the Consultant for the detailed energy assessment at the time of application.
- The detailed energy assessment should cover the whole plant or facility. Manufacturing equipment and processes may be excluded from the assessment. For large facilities, a partial assessment covering a complete system or part of the facility may be considered. Besides energy assessments, process plants can also carry out long-term monitoring of individual system components and overall systems to identify efficiency degradation. This is known as Energy Performance Monitoring. Such projects are also eligible for funding under E2F.
- Appointed Consultant can either be:
- a) an external company, foreign or local, and accredited under the Energy Services Company (ESCO) Accreditation Scheme; or
- b) qualified internal assessment teams with good track record in carrying out energy assessments of a comparable scale and scope. Such teams must provide evidence of substantial experience in carrying out energy assessments of the scale and scope intended.
Funding Amount
Up to 50% of the qualifying costs, capped at $200,000 over a 5-year period for any single facility.
Qualifying Costs
Energy assessment fees comprising
- Consultancy fees of Consultant, i.e. manpower, overheads and expendables; and
- Use of instrumentation and evaluation tools.
Singapore GST is excluded.
The cost of implementing the recommendations of the energy assessment is not supported under this component of E2F.
What’s Included
Virtual Energy Manager customers benefit from Northmore Gordon’s specialist consultancyservices for a fixed annual fee including the following as standard:
Preliminary assessment report
- Review project
- Assess eligibility
- Complete Preliminary Assessment Report
- Complete application form for NEA
Detailed proposal and application form
- Proposal for the required scope of works
- Supports the application form
Energy efficiency assessment
- Energy balance
- Sub-metering
- Energy efficiency opportunity assessment
- Detailed business cases
- Ideas-generation workshop
- Final Business cases for opportunities
- Calculate savings
Reporting for government
- Report for client and NEA
