Singapore’s Sunseap Group has completed construction of a 5MW offshore floating solar PV farm in the Straits of Johor, north of Woodlands Waterfront Park. The plant has 13,312 PV panels, 40 inverters and 30,000 floats and is expected to generate 6,023 MWh of solar energy, while reducing carbon emissions by 4,300 tonnes every year. The PV panels in the plants is fitted with a constant tension mooring system that makes it resistant to any weather changes.
Construction of the project was slowed due to COVID-19 related restriction on workers and the Woodlands floating solar farm took nearly a year to complete.
Previously, most of the floating solar farm systems were built on freshwater bodies or reservoirs, however Sunseap’s project is the first and the largest farm to be built on sea.