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SINGAPORE - Singapore is now home to one of the world's largest floating solar farms and it is capable of potentially offsetting more than 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
This is roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from more than 900 passenger vehicles a year.
Sustainable energy provider Sunseap Group on Tuesday (March 23) said it took close to a year to set up the solar farm in sea water in the Strait of Johor, off Woodlands, given the restrictions during the Covid-19 lockdown.
It involved a total of 13,312 panels, 40 inverters and more than 30,000 floats, spread over an area about the size of seven football fields.
The 5MW-peak system installation is expected to produce an estimated 6 million kW-hours of energy per year. It can potentially offset an estimated 4,258 tonnes of carbon dioxide, bringing the country closer to decarbonisation.
In land-scarce Singapore, the success of such a a sea-based floating system could lead the way for more such projects to tap energy from the sun here and in the region.
The solar farm is equipped with electrical panels, control systems and a 22 kilovolt transformer.
It is also a landing point for the subsea cable that transmits the generated power to the national grid. The floating system is designed to withstand changing weather conditions, keeping the platform and all of the operational equipment on board steady.
Read more here. (Straits Times)
This is roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions from more than 900 passenger vehicles a year.
Sustainable energy provider Sunseap Group on Tuesday (March 23) said it took close to a year to set up the solar farm in sea water in the Strait of Johor, off Woodlands, given the restrictions during the Covid-19 lockdown.
It involved a total of 13,312 panels, 40 inverters and more than 30,000 floats, spread over an area about the size of seven football fields.
The 5MW-peak system installation is expected to produce an estimated 6 million kW-hours of energy per year. It can potentially offset an estimated 4,258 tonnes of carbon dioxide, bringing the country closer to decarbonisation.
In land-scarce Singapore, the success of such a a sea-based floating system could lead the way for more such projects to tap energy from the sun here and in the region.
The solar farm is equipped with electrical panels, control systems and a 22 kilovolt transformer.
It is also a landing point for the subsea cable that transmits the generated power to the national grid. The floating system is designed to withstand changing weather conditions, keeping the platform and all of the operational equipment on board steady.
Read more here. (Straits Times)
