Floating solar power to supply electricity for Singapore

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There have been a number of odd (er, interesting...) floating solar power (solar farm) ideas over the years, but Singapore may be the first to implement an actual floating solar farm.

Singapore has unique circumstances that make it a great candidate for early adoption of floating solar panels.

It is an extremely dense country (#2 in terms of population density) with limited land and even rooftop space, but it has decent water resources on which to plop some solar panels.

Singapore's national water agency, the Public Utilities Board (PUB), said the solar farm will be built on the Tengeh Reservoir and will complement rooftop solar power systems on Choa Chu Kang Waterworks that the PUB is also planning to install. Together, the solar power projects are projected to provide as much electricity as approximately 1000 local homes use.

One of the biggest advantages of this project is definitely that it won't require the use of very limited and expensive Singaporean land.

Construction of the project is supposed to begin this month. The solar power project was actually approved way back in 2011. However, the tender was just recently awarded. The dramatic drop in solar panel prices in the past few years surely helps to make such a project much more affordable and competitive.