Green Energy Technologies

The world’s energy demand accounts for two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions and contributes significantly to global warming and climate change.

To limit and prevent global temperatures from exceeding the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement, the world needs to transition to a low-carbon economy, and faces an exigent demand for solutions to decarbonize energy.

Singapore is also committed to reduce emissions and has identified the harnessing of emerging technologies, including for carbon capture utilization and storage, and low carbon fuel technologies, as a key thrusts to achieve its low emission aspirations.

Our Approach

NUS excels in solar energy, waste-to-energy, energy efficiency and energy storage technologies research and has contributed to national CO₂ mitigation strategies in these areas.

To further support the ambitious long term low emissions targets, NUS amalgamated research expertise across its faculties to establish the Green Energy Programme (GEP).


The Green Energy Programme conducts research in emerging clean technologies, including green hydrogen fuel production via electrolysis, and CO₂ capture from both flue gas and ambient air, for conversion into green fuels.

Such approaches have the potential to develop new sources of massively scalable and sustainable energy.

NUS also has top-notch research capabilities in solar photovoltaic (PV) materials, devices, modules and systems, and is contributing strongly to the realisation of the national deployment target of at least 1.5 gigawatt-peak of solar power by 2025.