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15-713: In 1862, it was constructed by the Singapore Gas Company and occupied an area of about 3.14ha. It was built to supply piped gas in Singapore, and was the first in the country. It had a daily production capacity of 1,000,000m. It was the largest gas works in Southeast Asia at the time. Today, the site is listed as a Historic Site by the National Heritage Board . The area is bounded by Kallang Road , Crawford Street, Kampong Bugis and

30-546: A single Customer Service Centre in Toa Payoh. Following the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in Australia, over 600 victims signed a class action lawsuit against SPI Electricity Pty Ltd, the electricity distribution company of SP AusNet, an Australian energy company that was 51% owned by then Singapore Power. The lawsuit alleged negligence and breach of duty in the service and maintenance of powerlines controlled by them in

45-530: Is a state-owned electricity and gas distribution company in Singapore . SP Group is the corporatised entity of the former electricity and gas departments of the Public Utilities Board (PUB). SP Group was first incorporated as a commercial entity on 1 October 1995 as Singapore Power and Gas to take over the electricity and gas businesses of the state provider, PUB. Through its subsidiaries,

60-548: Is the producer and retailer of piped town gas in Singapore. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation . In 1861, the Singapore Gas Company was established in 1861 to provide piped gas to light Singapore’s streets. In the following year, the company built Kallang Gasworks , located at Kallang Basin in Kampung Bugis, which produced gas from coal. Coal from mines in Australia was shipped to

75-488: The Rochor River . At that time, gas was produced using coal and Kallang Gasworks was ideally located by the bank of the Rochor River . It made the delivery of coal supplies shipped from neighbouring countries convenient. The Kallang Basin site formed part of Singapore's southern coastline, before major land reclamation transformed the area into what it is today. There were a total of four tanks used for operation at

90-634: The Gasworks via the Rochor and Kallang rivers . In 1901, Singapore Gas Company was bought by the Municipal Commission. City Energy has a production facility in Singapore, Senoko Gasworks , equipped with a capacity of 1.6 million m per day. This is the sole facility producing town gas in Singapore. City Energy uses the gas pipeline network owned by PowerGas, a subsidiary of SP Group , to supply town gas to its customers. City Gas

105-488: The Kallang Gasworks piped gas production was relocated to Senoko Gasworks , which had a higher daily production capacity of 1,600,000m On 23 March 1998, Kallang Gasworks was officially decommissioned. Then on 26 March 1998, three days later, for the first and only time, public access to the plant was granted before it was returned to the government. Source: The infamous 1964 Singapore race riots broke out at

120-635: The building in silvery metal. Since 1995, SP Group has been wholly owned by Singapore investment fund Temasek which in turn is wholly owned by the Singapore government . On 29 January 2007, PUB moved out of the building to join its parent ministry, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources , at the Environment Building on Scotts Road . The company was renamed "SP Group" from 28 February 2017 onwards. SP Group relocated its main office building to Kallang in 2017. It operates

135-520: The company is the sole electrical grid and gas grid operator in the country, and provides electricity and gas transmission, distribution services, and market support services to more than a million households in Singapore. PUB was located initially at City Hall . After outgrowing its office space in City Hall, the PUB Building, located near Singapore's main shopping belt of Orchard Road ,

150-405: The municipal commissioners, coal carbonising plants were installed. It happened over a few decades, from 1901 to 1930. These plants were used till 1958. when the gas works were converted to oil gasification . After the last gas street lamp disappearing in 1956, the use of fuel oil replaced coal. New oil gasification plants were installed to replace the coal carbonising plants in 1958. In July 1997,

165-443: The piped gas for the street lighting. Its original function of servicing gas lighting soon faded as electricity took over street lights in 1906.. However, piped gas continued to grow in demand despite street lighting converting to electricity. This was due to the need for gas as fuel for cooking and water heating, especially with the rapid housing developments during the period of the 1960s and 1970s. When operations were handed over to

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180-405: The plant. Tanks 1 and 2 were constructed with the plant in 1862 and were used till 1957, when they were demolished. Tank number 3 was added before 1900, and Tank number 4 was the last addition. It was built between 1908 and 1909. Gas production continued uninterruptedly for 137 years at the Kallang Gasworks, except for short breaks during the world wars. The plant was initially built to supply

195-860: The section of Kallang Road near the Kallang Gasworks. Plans to develop the Kallang Riverside area led to official announcement in January 1987 that the Kallang Gasworks was to be demolished. A sculpture titled Spirit of Kallang by artist Lim Leong Seng is standing within Kallang Riverside Park to commemorate the Kallang Gasworks. The sculpture made use of materials formerly from the Kallang Gasworks. 1°18′29.9″N 103°51′54.3″E  /  1.308306°N 103.865083°E  / 1.308306; 103.865083 City Energy City Energy Pte Ltd , formerly known as City Gas Pte Ltd , founded as Singapore Gas Company in 1861,

210-580: Was built to accommodate several departments of the PUB. The PUB Building was completed in 1977; construction cost S$ 32 million. It was renamed as the Singapore Power Building, after PUB's electricity and gas operations were corporatised to Singapore Power on 1 October 1995. The Singapore Power Building was renovated in 2006, when Singapore Power chose not to redevelop its corporate headquarters. Instead, it opted to refurbish and reclad

225-432: Was renamed as City Energy on 1 December 2021. As of 2021, City Energy has approximately 870,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Singapore. City Energy provides town gas pipe installation and town gas supply activation services. The maintenance and retail of gas appliances and solutions are also services offered by the company. SP Group Singapore Power Group , doing business as SP Group

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