Resourceful Singapore Find Perfect Place For 86 Mw Solar Farm–Its Biggest Reservoir

Resourceful Singapore Find Perfect Place For 86 Mw Solar Farm–Its Biggest Reservoir

Resourceful Singapore Find Perfect Place For 86 Mw Solar Farm–Its Biggest Reservoir – credit, courtesy of Sembcorp How do you decarbonize a city state? With so little space, so many demands on power, and so many citizens, generating any meaningful electricity from renewable energy is a major challenge for urban planners. But over its history, the planners of Singapore have shown themselves to be nothing if not resourceful, and so maybe it’s no surprise they’re set to begin construction on an 86-megawatt solar farm. The surprise though comes from where they’ve built it—on top of the country’s largest reservoir—forming a floating solar farm that will join two others already present on two other reservoirs. The contractor, Singapore-based engineering firm Sembcorp Solar Singapore, won the bidding process with designs for an 86MW PV solar farm on Pandan Reservoir, issued by Singapore’s national water agency. It will be the third such floating solar farm built by Sembcorp, with the other two loc…