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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.<\/p>\n
But over its history, the planners of Singapore have shown themselves to be nothing if not resourceful, and so maybe it\u2019s no surprise they\u2019re set to begin construction on an 86-megawatt solar farm.<\/p>\n
The surprise though comes from where they\u2019ve built it\u2014on top of the country\u2019s largest reservoir\u2014forming a floating solar farm that will join two others already present on two other reservoirs.<\/p>\n
The contractor, Singapore-based engineering firm Sembcorp Solar Singapore<\/a>, won the bidding process with designs for an 86MW PV solar farm on Pandan Reservoir, issued by Singapore\u2019s national water agency.<\/p>\n It will be the third such floating solar farm built by Sembcorp, with the other two located on Singapore\u2019s two other reservoirs. One was built in 2021, and another was commissioned this year by Facebook parent company Meta to power the data center for its local subsidiary.<\/p>\n All tolled, the solar panels will generate 296 megawatts of clean energy.<\/p>\n \u201cFloating solar projects at reservoirs like Pandan, Tengeh and Kranji are vital for Singapore\u2019s land-scarce energy landscape,\u201d said<\/a> Ms. Jen Tan, CEO of Sembcorp Solar Singapore.<\/p>\n SOLAR PROJECTS, SOLAR PROGRESS:<\/strong><\/p>\n