Singapore reveals another floating solar panel farm

Singapore revealed a floating solar panel farms, one of the world's largest, which has an area equivalent to 45 football fields and producing electricity to power the five water treatment plants in the country.

The solar panel is located on a reservoir in western Singapore, which is 60 megawatt-peak solar photovoltaic (PV) farm that has been built by Sembcorp Industries.

"The electricity generated from the solar farm will be sufficient to power Singapore’s five local water treatment plants, offsetting about 7% of PUB’s annual energy needs and reducing PUB’s carbon footprint," said Sembcorp and Signapor'e national water agency PUB in a statement on Wednesday.

This means that the electricity generated from the 122,000 solar panels on the 45-hectare (111.2 acres)  is equivalent to powering about 16,000 four-room HDB flats and reducing carbon emissions by about 32 kilotonnes annually, comparable to taking 7,000 cars off the roads.

The company said that the solar panels are designed to last for 25 years and drones will be used to assist with maintenance.