Singapore To Build World’s Largest Solar Energy Plant

The world’s largest manufacturing plant for making solar energy products will be built in Singapore, it will be the first such plant in Southeast Asia.

The plant is expected to start production of wafers, cells and modules used to generate solar power by 2010. It will be built by leading Norwegian solar energy firm Renewable Energy Corp (REC) in the Tuas View area with space set aside for supporting industries.
The plant will be able to produce products that can generate up to 1.5 gigawatts (Gw) of energy annually. That is enough to power several million households at any one time.

The current largest plant in the world, also run by REC in Norway, has a capacity of 650 megawatts (Mw).

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