One Of The World’s Largest Floating Solar Farms Is Unveiled In Singapore. As part of the city-effort state’s to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Singapore launched one of the world’s largest floating solar power farms on Wednesday, encompassing an area the size of 45 football fields. The project is the country’s most ambitious ever, with 122,000 […]
Singapore Says S$5 Carbon Tax ‘A Start’ As It Eyes Higher Levy
Singapore is reviewing the planned increase in its carbon tax for businesses with a view to possibly raising the levy higher than earlier indicated, according to Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu. “We think there’s room to move,” said Fu on Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin and Rishaad Salamat. […]
Singapore Unveils One of the World’s Biggest Floating Solar Panel Farms
The project is part of efforts by the land-scarce Southeast Asian city-state to meet a goal of quadrupling its solar energy production by 2025 to help tackle climate change. Singapore : Singapore unveiled on Wednesday one of the world’s largest floating solar panel farms, spanning an area equivalent to 45 football fields and producing enough […]
Sunseap Delivers Offshore Floating Solar Project in Singapore
Singapore, a small and resource-scarce city-state, is now home to one of the world’s largest offshore floating solar PV farms, a 5 MW-peak project that’s been deployed in the Straits of Johor. Developed by Sunseap Group, a solar energy solutions provider in Singapore, the five-hectare sea-based solar plant is equivalent in size to five soccer […]
Solar Power is Dirt-Cheap And About to Get Even More Powerful
SINGAPORE : The solar industry has spent decades slashing the cost of generating electricity direct from the sun. Now it’s focusing on making panels even more powerful. With savings in equipment manufacturing hitting a plateau, and more recently pressured by rising prices of raw materials, producers are stepping up work on advances in technology – […]
Net Zero Carbon Building Solution For Singapore
Envision Digital and ST Engineering are to co-develop a digital building suite which could support the move towards net zero carbon cities globally. The two Singapore headquartered solution providers intend to build an end-to-end net zero carbon urban infrastructure solution for the public and commercial sectors, drawing on their combined strengths in digitalisation, artificial intelligence-based […]
Maxeon Solar Technologies Releases Inaugural Sustainability Report
SINGAPORE : Maxeon Solar Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MAXN), a global leader in solar innovation and channels, today announced the release of its first Sustainability Report. This provides Maxeon’s customers, investors and the wider public a detailed overview of the company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) achievements, initiatives, policies and future plans. In December 2020, in its […]
How Singapore And Asia’s Tech Sector Can Lead in Renewable Energy Adoptio
With the launch of the Singapore Green Plan 2030, Singapore has set its sights on scaling its net-zero ambitions, with a focus on greening its tech sector. Putting commitment to action, the government has imposed a moratorium on the building of new data centres – given its intensive consumption of electricity and water – as […]
India EV Sales to Grow at 26 Per Cent by FY23: Fitch
However, it said the economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic and limited domestically produced EVs will prove a challenging barrier to overcome. SINGAPORE: The recently announced electric vehicle (EV) incentives by India along with high fuel prices will be supporting factors for stronger adoption of EVs over 2020-2023, leading to an average annual growth rate of […]
LYS Energy to Install Rooftop Solar For HG Metal Manufacturing in Singapore
Singapore-based independent power producer LYS Energy Group has been contracted to install a 936.84-kWp solar array for local steel distributor HG Metal Manufacturing Ltd. The rooftop installation will consist of 2,059 solar panels provided by JA Solar, which will produce a total of 1,031.5 MWh of power a year. The project is due to be […]