Building starts on 60 MW floating PV plant in Singapore

• The plant will certainly offer power to Singapore's Public Utilities Board under a 25-year PPA. The project is located at the Tengeh Reservoir.

The Sembcorp Floating Solar Singapore unit of utilities and aquatic team Sembcorp Industries has begun service a 60 MW floating solar power plant at Singapore's Tengeh Reservoir. "This complies with favorable test results and also considerable ecological research studies which reveal that floating photovoltaic panels have very little effect on the storage tank's water top quality and biodiversity," the business said in a statement.

The solar center will provide power under a 25-year PPA with the water therapy centers of the Public Utilities Board (Pub) nationwide water company, which selected Singapore firm Sembcorp for the project in late February. Around 7% of the firm's power need will be covered by the floating PV plant.

The installation will rely on double-glass panels provided by an unnamed provider as well as accredited food-grade top quality, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) floats which are UV-resistant to prevent destruction from the intense sunlight direct exposure, the company stated without divulging extra technical information on the called for equipment.

" To optimize performance as well as reliability of procedures, the system is backed by an electronic monitoring system which includes safety cams, live video clip monitoring, dashboards and informs that aid to track environmental variables such as wind rate, solar irradiation and also ambient temperature level," Sembcorp added. "The system additionally discovers abnormalities that may suggest prospective overheating and fire threat for preemptive troubleshooting."

Project completion is scheduled for 2021. The Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore has been using the Tengeh Reservoir as a test bed for floating solar since 2017.

Norwegian technical working as a consultant DNV GL has been assigned technical consultant for the project.