Field notes on energy, the Fragment economy, cross-border commerce, regulated fintech and digital IP.
Singapore’s Built Environment Transformation GFA scheme — which traded up to 3% extra floor area for Green Mark Platinum Super Low Energy certification — expires November 23, 2026, with no announced successor.
Singapore's October 27 rewrite of SS 673 requires grid-linked certificates for Scope 2 claims — a day after Malaysia and Singapore's regulators launched the working group meant to qualify more overseas RECs.
Singapore’s grid operator will spend $5.3 billion through 2029 — eleven times the prior five years — to meet demand EMA expects could jump 51% by 2031. The plan never says which bill line pays for it.
ASEAN’s energy agency published a regional buying guide for air conditioners on November 2, 2026, built around a 6.09 Wh/Wh efficiency benchmark. As of June 2026, only Singapore’s own standard actually requires it.
Vietnam’s November 1 electricity price cut comes with a published rate table for households only; the decision governing commercial and industrial customers set no new public figures.
Malaysia ordered data centres to source 30% renewable power on October 27, but the Energy Commission has not defined whether that share is measured against contracted capacity or actual use.
Malaysia’s Energy Commission revised the grid charge companies pay for corporate green electricity twice in October 2026, and both revisions raised the all-in price — even as analysts call demand resilient.
Malaysia's Energy Commission revised its EECA guidelines in August: audits must now cover at least 80% of a facility's energy-consuming systems. The building envelope that sets the cooling load is not on that list.
Thailand’s Data Centre Board votes November 27 on a draft rule forcing data centres to recycle at least 80% of cooling-tower wastewater, with existing facilities given just one year to comply once it takes effect.
Budget 2027 extended Malaysia's Green Technology Financing Scheme to 2030, but the interest-rate subsidy MGTC asked to restore appears in the budget annex under a BPMB fund, not under GTFS.
Malaysia’s October 15 review of 2027 electricity tariffs singles out data centres and heavy industry — but data centres already pay for reserved power they don’t draw. The undefined category is who else counts as ‘energy-intensive.’
Indonesia's power-tariff formula has called for an increase in three straight quarters of 2026; the government overruled it each time, deferring a cost that building owners haven't budgeted for.
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