Stefan Huebner

President Society of Floating Solutions (Singapore)

Dr. Stefan Huebner is the president of the Society of Floating Solutions (Singapore). He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Asia Research Institute. He is working on the history, present, and future of ocean industrialization and new forms of urbanization that became possible through floating structures. Recent articles were published in Ocean and Coastal Management, ChannelNews Asia, and AsiaGlobal Online. His monograph will be released by Cambridge University Press in 2025. In 2019, he served as a U.S. SSRC Transregional Research Fellow at Harvard University, where he was previously a Fulbright scholar in 2018.

Main Conference Day 1

10:20 AM Fireside Chat: Powering the Future: A Transition to Clean Energy



This session explores the urgent need for a clean energy transition to combat climate change by highlighting the economic benefits and potential of renewable energy, emphasising the crucial role of strong policies in accelerating this shift. 

  • Understanding climate crisis demands urgent shift to clean energy 
  • Seeing how renewable technologies offer economic opportunities and job growth 
  • Abiding strong policies essential for accelerating energy transition 


2:20 PM Floating Solutions in the Green Energy Transition: Opportunities and Challenges in Singapore’s and the Surrounding Waters


Southeast Asian waters near the equator have huge potential for floating solar energy and floating nuclear energy generation, offering opportunities and socio-political challenges for creating new industrial synergies/clusters and reliable energy networks connecting Singapore and nearby countries.  

  • Explores opportunities for green energy transitions and energy imports/exports in Singaporean, Indonesian, and Bruneian waters 
  • Analyses political and social acceptance issues influencing the use of floating structures (e.g. floating solar, nuclear, etc.) 
  • Discusses synergies emerging from combining floating solar PV systems with other technologies to establish industrial clusters 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Stefan.

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