{{Short description|Singaporean electricity and gas distributor and manager}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox company | name = Singapore Power Group | trade_name = SP Group | logo = SP Group logo.svg | logo_size = 150 | type = State-owned | industry = {{ubl |Electrical power |Public utility |Sustainable energy }} | traded_as = | location = Singapore Power Building, 2 Kallang Sector, 349277 | hq_location_city = Kallang | hq_location_country = Singapore | area_served = {{ubl |Singapore |Australia |Thailand |China |Vietnam }} | key_people = {{ubl|{{wd-chairperson}}|{{wd-ceo}}}} | foundation = {{start date and age|df=y|1995|10|01}} (as Singapore Power)<br />{{start date and age|df=y|2017|02|28}} (as SP Group) | parent = Temasek Holdings | revenue = {{increase}} S$ 4 billion {{small|(2015/16)}} | assets = {{increase}} S$ 167 billion {{small|(2015/16)}} | website = {{official url}} <!-- for inclusion of footnotes and references --> | footnotes = {{ubl | financials as of FY2015/16 <ref name=AR2015>{{cite web|url=http://www.singaporepower.com.sg/irj/portal?NavigationTarget=navurl://3807c42be0900d06c156ec8ec24250c5&windowId=undefined|title=Singapore Power Corporate Profile|publisher=Singapore Power|access-date=2021-12-22|archive-date=2016-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104010405/http://www.singaporepower.com.sg/irj/portal?NavigationTarget=navurl%3A%2F%2F3807c42be0900d06c156ec8ec24250c5&windowId=undefined|url-status=live}}</ref> |Parent company <ref>{{Cite web |title=Transportation & Industrials |url=https://www.temasek.com.sg/content/temasek-corporate/en/our-investments/our-portfolio/transportation-industrials |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=Temasek Corporate Website English |language=en}}</ref> |Foundation date <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spgroup.com.sg/wcm/connect/spgrp/1d6ad20c-a510-456b-b784-77b7f30c85ed/%5B20170228%5D+Media+Release+-+Transforming+To+Serve+Customers+Better.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID= |title=Transforming to serve customers better |website=SP Group |date=28 February 2017 |accessdate=22 September 2019}}</ref> |Area served <ref>{{cite web |title=About Us - SP Group |url=https://www.spgroup.com.sg/about-us/corporate-profile |website=www.spgroup.com.sg |publisher=SP Group |access-date=31 August 2025}}</ref> }} }}
'''SP Group''' is a state-owned electricity and gas distribution company in Singapore. SP Group is the corporatised entity of the former electricity and gas departments of the Public Utilities Board (PUB). SP Group was first incorporated as a commercial entity on 1 October 1995 as Singapore Power and Gas to take over the electricity and gas businesses of the state provider, PUB.
Through its subsidiaries, the company is the sole electrical grid and gas grid operator in the country, and provides electricity and gas transmission, distribution services, and market support services to more than a million households in the country.
== History == PUB was initially located at City Hall. After outgrowing its office space in City Hall, the PUB Building, located near Singapore's main shopping belt of Orchard Road, was built to accommodate several departments of the PUB.<ref name="city">* {{cite book|author=Wong Yunn Chii|title=Singapore 1:1 City: A Gallery of Architecture & Urban Design|publisher=Urban Redevelopment Authority|year=2005|isbn=981-05-4467-7|location=Singapore}}</ref>
The PUB Building was completed in 1977; construction cost S$32 million.<ref name="city" /> It was renamed as the Singapore Power Building, after PUB's electricity and gas operations were corporatised to Singapore Power on 1 October 1995.<ref name="The Business Times Sep 1995">{{cite news|date=23 September 1995|title=PUB to split into three entities from Oct 1|page=2|newspaper=The Business Times}}</ref> The Singapore Power Building was renovated in 2006, when Singapore Power chose not to redevelop its corporate headquarters. Instead, it opted to refurbish and reclad the building in silvery metal.<ref name="staying">{{cite news|author=Calvin Low|date=4 August 2007|title=Staying Power|page=L16, L17|newspaper=The Straits Times}}</ref>
Since 1995, SP Group has been wholly owned by Singapore investment fund Temasek which in turn is wholly owned by the Singapore government.<ref name="smh05172013">{{Cite web|last=Maiden|first=Malcolm|title=China's State Grid powers up in Australia|date=17 May 2013 |url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/chinas-state-grid-powers-up-in-australia-20130517-2js2n.html|access-date=11 August 2016|language=en-US}}</ref>
On 29 January 2007, PUB moved out of the building to join its parent ministry, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, at the Environment Building on Scotts Road.<ref>{{cite web|date=26 January 2007|title=Under one roof at Environment Building|url=http://pub.gov.sg/info_center/press_release26012007.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607011415/http://pub.gov.sg/info_center/press_release26012007.aspx|archive-date=7 June 2007|access-date=21 September 2019|website=PUB}}</ref><ref name="The Business Times Jan 20072">{{cite news|date=27 January 2007|title=Singapore Roundup: PUB moves to Environment Building|newspaper=The Business Times}}</ref>
The company was renamed "SP Group" from 28 February 2017 onwards.<ref>{{cite web|date=28 February 2017|title=Transforming to serve customers better|url=https://www.spgroup.com.sg/wcm/connect/spgrp/1d6ad20c-a510-456b-b784-77b7f30c85ed/%5B20170228%5D+Media+Release+-+Transforming+To+Serve+Customers+Better.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=|website=SP Group|accessdate=22 September 2019}}</ref> SP Group relocated its main office building to Kallang in 2017. It operates a single Customer Service Centre in Toa Payoh.
== Structure == thumb|Singapore Institute of Power and Gas with its former name
===Subsidiaries=== {{ad|date=December 2025}} *'''SP PowerGrid''' – Manages the nation’s electricity transmission and distribution networks through continuous monitoring. The Grid Digital Twin, a digital replica of Singapore’s future electricity grid, is currently being developed with the Energy Market Authority, to improve the reliability of Singapore’s electricity supply and support the deployment of cleaner energy sources. (as at 27 Oct 2021) *'''SP Services''' – Provides integrated customer billing services for electricity, water and piped gas supplies in Singapore. It holds the nation's Market Support Services License to provide meter reading services, meter data management, and facilitates customers' transfer from the regulated tariff to the Open Electricity Market retailers, or to the wholesale electricity market. SP Services leverages its digital team to provide customers with self-help e-services through the SP app, enabling users to manage utilities accounts and perform transactions online. In 2021, PUB awarded SP Services to supply, install and manage smart water meters island wide. *'''SP Sustainable Energy Solutions''' – Provides sustainable solutions such as centralised cooling and heating, electric mobility, renewable energy certificates, urban micro-grid and rooftop solar energy for commercial and residential customers. It owns and operates the world’s largest underground district cooling network at Marina Bay, producing chilled water to provide air-conditioning to buildings in the Marina Bay district. The company collaborated with the Housing and Development Board (HDB) to deploy Singapore’s first residential centralised cooling system at Tengah housing estate. *'''SP Digital –''' The digital arm of SP Group has developed the SP app and Green Energy Tech solutions for customers to improve energy efficiency and reduce environmental footprint. The app enables users to monitor their energy consumption and access a suite of sustainability tips and features, including tools to track environmental impact, earn rewards for completing green tasks (GreenUP) and offset emissions by purchasing renewable energy certificates (My Green Credits). *'''SP PowerGas''' – The sole licensed gas transporter and gas system operator, transporting both natural gas and town gas. It owns and operates all the gas pipelines in Singapore and is responsible for delivering gas to users through its gas pipe network. It operates a town gas system as well as a natural gas system which is transmitted from Sumatra. *'''SP PowerAssets''' – The sole provider of electricity transmission and distribution services in Singapore. It holds the Transmission License and owns the electricity transmission and distribution Network of Singapore including major transmission and distribution assets like substations and underground cables with an approximate network value of S$6.5billion (as at 31 Mar 6)
=== Major joint ventures === *'''Power Automation''' – a joint-venture company set up by SP Group with Siemens in July 1995 to offer engineering services in protection systems, substation control and energy management and information systems across Asia Pacific. *'''Singapore District Cooling''' – a joint-venture company set up by SP Group with Dalkia in September 2000 as a partner to implement the pilot District Cooling project at Marina South New Downtown. District Cooling is an urban utility service involving the centralised production of chilled water for distribution to commercial buildings for air-conditioning purposes.
===Other investments=== *'''AusNet Services''' – Through its wholly owned subsidiary Singapore Power International Pte Ltd, SP Group owned a 31.1% stake in AusNet Services. AusNet Services's assets include electricity transmission and distribution networks, and gas distribution assets in Victoria, Australia. AusNet Services was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) and the Singapore Exchange (SGX).<ref>{{Cite web |title=国家电网完成澳大利亚配电配气资产收购 |url=http://finance.sina.com.cn/chanjing/gsnews/20140103/144017836992.shtml |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=finance.sina.com.cn}}</ref> In 2022, the company was sold in its entirety to Brookfield Asset Management. *'''Jemena''' - The company currently owns 40% of Jemena (a trading name of '''SGSP (Australia) Assets Pty Ltd''') which owns gas and electricity assets and management services in Australia. Former AusNet partner State Grid Corporation of China owns the remainder after selling it in 2014. *'''SPI Seosan Co-generation and Water Treatment''' – SP Group's investment in South Korea provides electricity, steam and water treatment services to Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co Ltd, one of the largest petrochemical companies in Korea. *'''EverPower IPP''' – SP Group's investment in Taiwan comprises a 25% stake in Ever Power IPP Company, an independent power producer, which supplies electricity to Taiwan Power Company.
== Incidents == Following the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Australia, over 600 victims signed a class action lawsuit against SPI Electricity Pty Ltd, the electricity distribution company of SP AusNet, an Australian energy company that was 51% owned by then Singapore Power.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 June 2010 |title=Singapore Power says it's not a defendant in lawsuit over Australian bushfire |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_singapore/view/1064286/1/.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622115542/http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_singapore/view/1064286/1/.html |archive-date=22 June 2010 |work=Channel NewsAsia |accessdate=23 March 2012}}</ref> The lawsuit alleged negligence and breach of duty in the service and maintenance of powerlines controlled by them in the state of Victoria. In particular, the lawsuit alleged the power company negligently failed to fit a protective device on the power line, alleging that it contributed to it breaking and starting a bushfire in the Kilmore East area on 7 February 2009.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 June 2010 |title=Hundreds sign for bushfire class action |url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1072983/hundreds-sign-for-bushfire-class-action |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623001848/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/1072983/hundreds-sign-for-bushfire-class-action |archive-date=23 June 2010 |access-date=23 March 2012 |work=Ninemsn}}</ref>
== See also == *Singapore Power Building
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Official website}} *[http://www.sp-ausnet.com.au/ SP AusNet Website]
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