据能源世界网3月8日报道，由于新加坡土地面积很小，不得不在沿海地区建立能源工厂和储蓄库，作为其“绿色计划”的一部分。
数千块在阳光下闪闪发光的太阳能电池板延伸到新加坡的近海区，这是这个土地稀缺的国家推动建造浮式太阳能电场以减少温室气体排放的一部分。
该国可能是世界上最小的国家之一，但这个繁荣的金融中心却是亚洲人均二氧化碳排放量最大的国家之一。
尽管有关部门一直在推动改变这一现状，但在一个没有河流用于水力发电、风力不足以驱动涡轮机的国家，可再生能源仍是一个挑战。
因此，这个热带国家转向了太阳能发电——然而，由于国土面积只有洛杉矶的一半，其已求助于在沿海和储蓄库上建立能源工厂。
正在建设一个项目的胜科实业集团（Sembcorp Industries）高级副总裁兼东南亚太阳能部门主管詹坦（Jen Tan）表示，屋顶和可用土地非常稀少，在用完之后，下一个巨大的潜力实际上是我们的水域。
作为一个因气候变化而受到海平面上升威胁的岛国，新加坡意识到了减排的紧迫性，尽管批评人士说，当局的环保承诺迄今尚未兑现。
该国政府上月公布了一项范围广泛的“绿色计划”，包括种植更多树木、减少送往垃圾填埋场的垃圾数量以及建造更多充电站以鼓励使用电动汽车等。
郝芬 译自 能源世界网
原文如下：
Space-starved Singapore builds floating solar farms
With little land, it has resorted to setting up energy plants off its coasts and reservoirs as part of its ‘green plan’
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.
So the tropical country turned to solar power—however, with little land space in a place half the size of Los Angeles, it has resorted to setting up energy plants off its coasts and on reservoirs.
“After exhausting the rooftops and the available land, which is very scarce, the next big potential is actually our water area,” said Jen Tan, senior vice-president and head of solar in Southeast Asia at conglomerate Sembcorp Industries, which is building a project.
An island-state threatened by rising sea levels because of climate change, Singapore is aware of the urgency of cutting emissions, although critics say authorities’ environmental commitments have thus far fallen short.
The government last month unveiled a wide-ranging “green plan” that included steps such as planting more trees, reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and building more charging points to encourage the use of electric cars.
