The Clean Energy Programme Office (CEPO) has awarded the first five private sector projects under the S$20 million Solar Capability Scheme (SCS) with the Solar Pioneer Award. The projects are City Development Limited’s Tampines Grande, Lend Lease Retail’s 313@Somerset, Robert Bosch’s regional headquarters building, Lonza Biologics’ manufacturing facility, and Applied Materials’ manufacturing facility. CEPO also announced the second wave of public sector projects under its S$17 million Clean Energy Research and Test-bedding (CERT) programme.

These new public and private sector projects will increase Singapore’s cumulative installed base of solar systems from 200kW in 2008 to about 5MW. CEPO also launched the National Solar Repository, which is set up jointly by Singapore Polytechnic and the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS). The Repository will capture the performance and climatic impact data from CEPO’s public and private testbed sites. The two organisations will analyse the data gathered so as to help proliferate best practices and know-how in system installation and integration in the Singapore environment.