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Singapore is using water-based panels to boost its solar energy use four-fold to around two percent of the city s power needs by 2025. Photo: AFP
Thousands of panels glinting in the sun stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the land-scarce city-state s push to build floating solar farms to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
It may be one of the world s smallest countries, but the prosperous financial hub is among the biggest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in Asia.
And while authorities have been pushing to change that, renewable energy is a challenge in a country with no rivers for hydro-electricity and where the wind is not strong enough to power turbines.
Singapore is one of the biggest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in Asia.
Authorities have been pushing for a switch to renewables, but the country is short on resources like rivers for hydro-electricity, or enough wind for power turbines.
It s also short of land space for solar plants, so instead it has set up energy plants off its coasts and on reservoirs.
Thousands of panels glinting in the sun stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the land-scarce city-state s push to build floating solar farms to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
It may be one of the world s smallest countries, but the prosperous financial hub is among the biggest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in Asia.