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WIND passenger cars emit in one year. although critics say authorities’ environmental
The order continues Siemens Energy’s commitments have thus far fallen short.
Siemens Energy to supply recent global track record of power wide-ranging “green plan” that included steps
The government last month unveiled a
transmission projects in the wind energy
transformers for China’s sector. To date more than 2.500 units of such as planting more trees, reducing the
amount of waste sent to landfills and building
the ester fluid immersed FITformer WIND
first 66 kV offshore wind were installed in wind offshore applications more charging points to encourage the use of
worldwide.
electric cars.
farm SIEMENS ENERGY energy use four-fold to around two percent
Among the measures is increasing solar
Siemens Energy will install 22 units of of the nation’s power needs by 2025, and to
distribution transformers at China’s first SOL AR three percent by 2030 -- enough for 350,000
commercial 66 kilovolts (kV) offshore households per year.
wind farm, Yuhuan Offshore Wind Power Singapore builds floating As well as on water, solar power plants
Project Phase 1, located in Taizhou, Zhejiang have already been built on rooftops and on the
Province, southeastern China. The fluid solar farms in climate fight ground.
immersed transformers of type FITformer One newly built solar farm spreads out
WIND will support China Huadian Thousands of panels glinting in the sun from the coast into the Johor Strait, which
Corporation (CHD) to optimise energy stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the separates Singapore from Malaysia.
supply in the Yangtze River Delta region. land-scarce city-state’s push to build floating The 13,000 panels are anchored to the
With an installed capacity of 300 megawatt solar farms to cut greenhouse gas emissions. seabed and can produce five megawatts of
the wind farm will supply environmentally It may be one of the world’s smallest electricity, enough to power 1,400 flats for an
friendly power to about 240,000 households countries, but the prosperous financial hub is entire year.
per year. among the biggest per capita carbon dioxide “The sea is a new frontier for solar to be
“To successfully drive the energy emitters in Asia. installed,” said Shawn Tan, vice president for
transition, it is essential to increase the share And while authorities have been pushing to engineering at Singaporean firm Sunseap
of renewables in the energy mix. Equipped change that, renewable energy is a challenge in Group, which completed the project in
with innovative state-of-the-art transformer a country with no rivers for hydro-electricity January.
technology, China’s first 66 kV offshore wind and where the wind is not strong enough to “We hope that this will set a precedent
farm will lead the way to a significant increase power turbines. to have more floating projects in the sea in
of clean, renewable wind energy to the grid So the tropical country turned to solar Singapore and neighbouring countries.”
and will contribute to China’s goal of carbon power -- however, with little land space in Under development at Tengeh Reservoir
neutrality by 2060,” said Beatrix Natter, a place half the size of Los Angeles, it has is a far bigger project -- once completed later
Executive Vice President Transmission at resorted to setting up energy plants off its this year, the 122,000-panel solar farm will be
Siemens Energy. coasts and on reservoirs. one of the biggest in Southeast Asia covering
Growing demand for wind energy has led “After exhausting the rooftops and the an area the size of 45 football pitches.
to the development of increasingly stronger available land, which is very scarce, the next The project, developed by Sembcorp and
wind turbines which produce 10 megawatts big potential is actually our water area,” said the national water agency Public Utilities
and beyond, requiring higher voltage Jen Tan, senior vice president and head of Board, will generate enough power to
levels and innovative power transmission solar in Southeast Asia at conglomerate meet the energy needs of Singapore’s water
technologies. The FITformer WIND Sembcorp Industries, which is building a treatment plants, said the agency’s senior
transformer was developed to enable these project. planner Sharon Zheng.
larger power capacities with a voltage class of An island-state threatened by rising sea This will lead to a reduction in carbon
up to 72.5 kV. The compact and lightweight levels because of climate change, Singapore emissions equivalent to removing 7,000 cars
transformers for Phase 1 of the Yuhuan is aware of the urgency of cutting emissions, from the roads.
Offshore Wind Power Project will be installed
in the tower base of the wind turbines.
With strong corrosion resistance FITformer
WIND transformers are fully suitable for the
hostile conditions of marine environment
operation guaranteeing high reliability and
low maintenance requirements. In addition,
the highly efficient transformers are filled with
biodegradable synthetic ester insulating oil
instead of conventional mineral oil, which is
particularly environmentally friendly and fire
safe.
The first phase of the Yuhuan Offshore
Wind Power Project is scheduled to be
completed by the end of 2021 and will
effectively optimise energy supply in the
Yangtze River delta. After commissioning
the project is forecast to result in a reduction
of 584,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions per year, which is more than 12,600

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