Singapore legislation
Regulation 3
of Energy Conservation (Registrable Corporations) Order 2013
Regulation 3
Qualifications of registrable corporation
Subregulation 1
A corporation is a registrable corporation if —
it has operational control over a business activity which has attained the energy use threshold specified in sub-paragraph (2) in at least 2 out of the 3 preceding calendar years; and
the business activity is carried out at a single site and is attributable to one of the following industry sectors:
manufacturing and manufacturing-related services;
supply of electricity, gas, steam, compressed air and chilled water for air-conditioning;
water supply and sewage and waste management.
Subregulation 2
The energy use threshold referred to in section 22(2)(c) of the Act is 54 terajoules of energy consumed per calendar year, derived from one or more types of fuel or energy commodity specified in the First Schedule.
Subregulation 3
The energy consumed by a business activity is the total consumption of energy derived from all fuel and energy commodities used to provide or produce energy, but the total shall not include energy so produced from any fuel or energy commodity that is already accounted for in the total figure.
Subregulation 4
If a quantity of fuel used is to be converted to an amount of energy in joules, the conversion is to be done using —
the default net calorific values set out in the Second Schedule; or
the net calorific values specified by a corporation and approved by the Director-General under sub-paragraph (8).
Subregulation 5
If a quantity of an energy commodity used is to be converted to an amount of energy in joules, the conversion is to be done using —
the default energy content values set out in the Third Schedule; or
the energy content values specified by a corporation and approved by the Director-General under sub-paragraph (8).
Subregulation 6
A corporation seeking to specify the net calorific value of a fuel shall submit to the Director-General a report by a laboratory containing the results of a test conducted in accordance with the relevant ASTM International, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or other testing standards approved by the Director-General to ascertain the net calorific value of the fuel concerned.
Subregulation 7
A corporation seeking to specify the energy content value of an energy commodity shall submit to the Director-General the method by which the corporation derived the energy content value.
Subregulation 8
The Director-General may approve or reject the net calorific value or the energy content value sought to be specified by a corporation under sub-paragraph (6) or (7), as the case may be.