According to Khoo Chin Hean, Singapore's power infrastructure was "smaller and not as heavily interconnected as those in the United States" and, thus, less likely to undergo the same sort of problems encountered in the West. He did add, though, that he felt that this fact should not be taken for granted as "no system, however well designed and engineered, was infallible."

The country manager for the Singapore office of American Power Conversion, David Shao, shares Khoo's view. Shao is confident that Singapore's small size means that the country's power system can cope with a failure because "hardware [for] a small country is much easier to manage." He also believes that the country's monitoring system was efficient and that it has a "first-notch infrastructure in power supply."

The last major blackout was in August 2002, disrupted only the eastern and western parts of the country and only lasted 90 minutes.

According to the Straits Times newspaper, it believes that Singapore can handle any future blackout as it has adequate reserve capacity to back up any single failure, exercises the readiness of its entire power system on a regular basis and can switch from gas turbines to diesel in the event of a gas disruption.

Furthermore, by diversifying its supply of natural gas by buying from both Indonesia and Malaysia and by studying the possibility of importing LNG for power generation, it is hoping to reduce its dependence on piped natural gas.