[Seeds of Change] Energy Transition x Three Horizons

Why This Matters

Singapore’s energy future does not stop at its borders.

As the country pursues decarbonisation, its choices increasingly intersect with regional realities — from cross-border electricity imports and renewable infrastructure development to land use, communities, ecosystems, and resource demands across Southeast Asia.

At the same time, energy transition is unfolding amid growing uncertainty:

• Rising electricity demand from AI, cooling, electrification and digital infrastructure

• Tensions between reliability, affordability and sustainability

• Emerging technologies whose long-term viability remains uncertain

• Questions of governance, participation and accountability

• Uneven impacts across different communities and countries

Without a way to hold these multiple timelines and perspectives, it’s easy to:

• Over-invest in what already exists and is becoming less fit for the future

• Prematurely push solutions that aren’t ready

• Treat energy transition as purely technical, while overlooking its social and regional implications

• Missing signals of what could fundamentally reshape the system

The Three Horizons framework offers a way to see these dynamics more clearly and manage the complexities more consciously.

Energy Transition

with Three Horizons

Seeds of Change

A public workshop series that combines systems thinking and futures tools to help practitioners, changemakers and curious citizens think and decide differently in complexity.

See overview of the series here.

What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of the workshop, you will:

• Gain hands-on experience using the Three Horizons framework

• Develop a clearer understanding of how transitions unfold over time

• Learn to recognise patterns of lock-in, emerging signals, and transition dynamics

• Build the ability to hold multiple, sometimes conflicting futures simultaneously

• Strengthen your capacity to navigate complexity without rushing to solutions

• Connect with others thinking about energy, sustainability, and systems change

Date: 30 July 2026, Thu

Time: 6.30pm - 9.30pm

Venue: Palo IT, 11 Beach Road #06-00

Cost: S$30 (includes pizza)

What We’ll Do

In this 3-hour interactive session, participants will:

• Map the current energy system (Horizon 1) and the assumptions, dependencies and patterns keeping it in place

• Explore emerging innovations, disruptions and transition experiments (Horizon 2) shaping transition pathways

• Imagine longer-term futures that are already beginning to emerge (Horizon 3) and what a truly transformed system could look like

• Surface tensions, trade-offs, and contradictions across the three horizons

• Discuss questions of regional interdependence, participation, governance, and energy demand

• Reflect on where meaningful intervention might be possible

The session will be grounded in real-world Southeast Asia case studies , including Singapore’s role in regional renewable energy procurement, offering a lens into the cross-border dynamics, trade-offs, and tensions shaping the transition — shared by Energy CoLab.