Singapore International Energy Week

Singapore International Energy Week
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Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Singapore
Founded	2008
Most recent	2014
Participants	20,000 in 2011
Organised by	Energy Market Authority and Energy Studies Institute
Website
http://siew.sg/

Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) is an annual week-long energy conference for interested parties (industrial, political and academia). The week comprises a number of exhibitions, workshops and networking sessions focused on key issues within the energy industry. The first event was held in 2008 (when it was called the International Energy Week). The event is organised by Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA).

The inaugural International Energy Week took place from 3–7 November 2008 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, and was attended by 2500 people.

Program topics featured a range of industry topics addressing energy investment, energy efficiency, traditional, renewable and alternative energies, climate change, and green architecture. Program highlights included the delivery of the inaugural Singapore Energy Lecture by Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore to an audience of 500 people, and presentations by industry leaders and multi-national energy companies.

During the event, the Government of Singapore announced the establishment of a 25 million Singapore dollars (16.8 million U.S. dollars) Energy Research and Development Fund to support the proliferation of new energy technologies in Singapore. Also during the event, Vestas Wind Systems, an official partner of Singapore International Energy in 2008, opened its largest research facility outside of its home country of Denmark.

Singapore International Energy Week 2009 took place from 16–20 November at the Shangri-la Hotel in Singapore.

Over 1,800 companies and 5,000 participants registered for events during the week.

On the opening day, the second annual Singapore Energy Lecture was delivered by Daniel Yergin, the Chairman & co-founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. In his speech, Yergin discussed the development of unconventional shale gas, calling it "one of the most important innovations of this decade" - and that the use of natural gas is expected to grow substantially in Asia, especially in Liquefied natural gas (LNG) form. He also said that oil supply will be supplied by the use of technological innovations, as only about a fifth of the oil reserves that could be recovered had been extracted.