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And there is indeed plenty of room for growing Singapore’s solar energy generation.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Jotham Chan, head of residential from renewable energy and clean infrastructure solutions provider Eigen Energy, noted that although public infrastructure led the first wave of adoption, thousands of prime rooftops across commercial zones and landed housing estates remain completely untapped.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n His colleague, Mr Pradhan Rajoo, said that as solar energy becomes more widely accepted and proven, customer priorities have also shifted.<\/span><\/p>\n From initial concerns centred on unfamiliar technology, system reliability and long payback periods, the focus has shifted to aesthetics, roof compatibility and alignment with long-term property plans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Rajoo, who is business development manager for commercial and industrial sectors at Eigen Energy, added: “Ultimately, the next phase of market growth will depend on how easily we can bring zero-upfront financing to the masses and maximise trickier roof spaces, turning solar panels into a standard, everyday feature for homes.”<\/span><\/p>\n Overcoming obstacles to the broader adoption of solar energy and boosting Singapore’s solar power generation is not just a matter of lowering costs and clearing red tape.<\/span><\/p>\n It is also about transforming solar infrastructure, analysts said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Dr Reindl from SERIS said that Singapore will have to “think out of the box”, such as embracing floating solar panels on water bodies, for example, the 60-MWp floating solar power plant on Tengeh reservoir.<\/span><\/p>\n “Apart from inland reservoirs, we can also imagine floating solar in near-shore areas that are away from shipping routes and nature-protected areas.” \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n National water agency PUB has installed about 67 MWp of solar capacity, through rooftop PV systems at six facilities and floating PV systems at three reservoirs.<\/p>\n There are plans to deploy future\u00a0large-scale floating solar PV systems\u202fat \u202fLower Seletar Reservoir and Pandan Reservoir.<\/p>\n The 60-MWp floating PV system at Tengeh Reservoir, which began operations in 2021, consists of about 122,000 solar panels spanning 45 hectares, generating enough clean energy to power around 16,000 four-room HDB flats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n And there is indeed plenty of room for growing Singapore’s solar energy generation. Mr Jotham Chan, head of residential from renewable energy and clean infrastructure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR SOLAR POWER?<\/h2>\n
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