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US Chipmaker Micron Technology to Install 36,000 Solar Panels at its Singapore Plant

The renewable power installation is being completed in alliance with Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries.

August 11, 2023. By EI News Network

Micron Technology, one of the world’s biggest memory chipmakers, is in the process of establishing 36,000 solar panels on the rooftops of its fabrication plants and on its carport shelter tops in Singapore and utilising the renewable power produced to reduce its carbon footprint.

Chen Kok Sing, the US company’s Vice-President and Singapore Country Manager, said, the plan is that all the panels are installed by 2024, and the project will generate electricity that is able to power 6,000 homes.

The renewable power installation is being completed in alliance with Singapore’s Sembcorp Industries.

Through this pact, the installation is managed by Sembcorp on the space facilitated by Micron, which further will get concessional tariffs for the power generated for several years.

Micron’s solar project in Singapore is part of its goal to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its operations and its purchased energy by 2050 worldwide.

In fiscal year 2022, Micron achieved 100 percent renewable energy in Malaysia and signed its first major power agreements to complement the company’s goal to do the same for its existing United States operations by the end of 2025.

Chen said the company also operates with its suppliers to find out emission-reduction projects such as equipment upgrades, efficiency improvements and renewable energy purchases.

In recognition of this accomplishment, the World Economic Forum in 2022 gave a title to Micron Singapore a ‘sustainability lighthouse’ – the first front-end semiconductor fabrication in the world to receive this designation.

He applauded the Singapore Government for its assistance in Micron’s sustainability efforts.

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