Singapore completes one of world’s largest floating solar power plants
Singapore-based solar energy provider Sunseap says it has completed construction of a five megawatt offshore floating solar farm in the Straits of Johor between Singapore and Malaysia, noting that it was one of the world’s largest floating solar farms on sea water.
This floating solar farm is located off the coast of Woodlands in northern Singapore and took close to a year to be set up during the COVID-19 lockdown.
It has a total of 13,312 panels, 40 inverters and more than 30,000 floats. The installation is expected to produce over six million kilowatt hours of power per year, potentially offsetting an estimated 4,258 tons of carbon dioxide.
Power from the solar farm will be transmitted through a subsea cable to the national grid, according to Sunseap.
Matured technology helps land-scarce countries in generating power
Singapore, with industrial land being scarce, is one of the countries which want to bank on floating solar farms. Building such farms in the sea has special challenges, such as avoiding shipping routes and barnacles, but the technology has become quite matured in recent times.
Singapore’s Public Utilities Board in cooperation with the nation’s National Water Agency is further constructing a 60-megawatt floating solar farm on the waters of Tengeh Reservoir, also in northern Singapore. It will be larger than Woodlands, the agencies said.
The new solar farm of off the coast of Woodlands in northern Singapore Singapore-based solar energy provider Sunseap says it has completed construction of a five megawatt offshore floating solar farm in the Straits of Johor between Singapore and Malaysia, noting that it was one of the world’s largest floating solar farms on sea water. This floating solar farm is located off the coast of Woodlands in northern Singapore and took close to a year to be set up during the COVID-19 lockdown. It has a total of 13,312 panels, 40 inverters and more than 30,000 floats. The installation is...
Singapore-based solar energy provider Sunseap says it has completed construction of a five megawatt offshore floating solar farm in the Straits of Johor between Singapore and Malaysia, noting that it was one of the world’s largest floating solar farms on sea water.
This floating solar farm is located off the coast of Woodlands in northern Singapore and took close to a year to be set up during the COVID-19 lockdown.
It has a total of 13,312 panels, 40 inverters and more than 30,000 floats. The installation is expected to produce over six million kilowatt hours of power per year, potentially offsetting an estimated 4,258 tons of carbon dioxide.
Power from the solar farm will be transmitted through a subsea cable to the national grid, according to Sunseap.
Matured technology helps land-scarce countries in generating power
Singapore, with industrial land being scarce, is one of the countries which want to bank on floating solar farms. Building such farms in the sea has special challenges, such as avoiding shipping routes and barnacles, but the technology has become quite matured in recent times.
Singapore’s Public Utilities Board in cooperation with the nation’s National Water Agency is further constructing a 60-megawatt floating solar farm on the waters of Tengeh Reservoir, also in northern Singapore. It will be larger than Woodlands, the agencies said.
