S’pore reservoir to house floating solar panel systems

New age: Workers inspecting solar panels at the Tengeh Reservoir in Tuas in this file picture. — The Straits Times/Asia News Network

SINGAPORE: One of the world’s largest single floating solar photovoltaic (PV) systems might soon find a home in the waters of Singapore’s Tengeh Reservoir.

In a bid to reduce its carbon footprint, national water agency, the PUB, will seek proposals from companies to design, build, own and run the nation’s first large-scale floating system of solar panels that will power water treatment processes.