Why this is material

Our business activities consume resources such as fuel and water, and in turn generate waste. With resource scarcity and increased costs, the stewardship of resource use has become imperative.

Sembcorp’s material energy footprint arises from our conventional energy business where our power plants consume fuel such as natural gas and coal.

Most of our interactions with water arise from our conventional energy and water businesses. Our conventional energy assets withdraw seawater, surface water and groundwater mainly for cooling purposes with a majority returned to the environment. In our water business, our most significant water withdrawal is seawater for the production of desalinated water. Our industrial wastewater treatment facilities treat customers’ wastewater, where a portion of the treated water is reclaimed and supplied back to the customers.

Sembcorp’s most significant waste-related impact to the environment arises from our conventional energy and water businesses which generate ash and sludge during operations.

Our approach

We seek to produce more with less. We increase energy efficiency and reduce water use through operational optimisation and deployment of digital solutions to monitor and optimise asset performance. Effluent discharge is managed in compliance with relevant local environmental laws and regulations.

For waste management, we adopt the principles of prevent, reduce, reuse, recycle and recover. We seek to implement solutions that support a circular economy in our operations as well as that of our customers’. We also leverage digital solutions to monitor waste-related data and improve operational efficiency.

Our frameworks and policies

• Group HSSE Policy
• Group Environmental Policy
• Group HSSE Environmental Reporting Standard
• Sembcorp Environmental Management Standard

Reference frameworks

• ISO 14001
• ISO 50001