Er. Seow Kang Seng

Er. Seow is a Singapore registered professional engineer in electrical engineering with expertise in planning, design and implementation of numerous power system and engineering projects. He is a 40+-year veteran of the utility industry, with strategic, planning, operational and consulting experience. He has provided client solutions in grid code harmonization, substation upgrading, strategic planning, technical analysis and project implementation. Er. Seow started work in the then Electricity Department of Public Utilities Board in 1975 and left in 1995 to put in charge of new electricity supply business under the Singapore Power group. He was Deputy Managing Director of SP Services Ltd before he left the company in 2003. He was actively involved in the liberalisation of energy markets in Singapore, serving in Singapore Electricity Pool Executive Committee, Liberalisation of Utility Markets of Singapore (LUMS) Committee, (Market) Rule Change Panel, etc.

Er. Seow set up his consultancy practice subsequently and joined Energy Market Authority (EMA), Singapore as Director (Inspectorate) for both electricity and gas installations in June 2006. He had also served as Director (Emergency Planning and Consumer Safety) for the energy sector in Singapore and was also the Deputy Chairman of the Project Committee for the Electricity Vending System Pilot Project, which was completed successfully in 2009 and the joint inventor for the Utility Vending System. Er. Seow became the Project Director for the Pulau Ubin Clean and Renewable Energy Technologies Test-bedding Project on a microgrid platform from 2009 – 2011 before he left EMA. Er. Seow resumed his consultancy practice in July 2011 and joined an international consultant firm DNV GL as Principal Consultant in January 2015 providing advisory services on Asset Management, Grid Code implementation, energy market development, etc.