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Shawn Tan, head of engineering at renewable energy firm Sunseap Group, at a floating open-sea solar energy farm in Singapore.
ST PHOTO: FELINE LIM
SINGAPORE - Work on an offshore floating solar farm spanning the size of five football fields was under way in the Strait of Johor when the Covid-19 pandemic struck.
Mr Shawn Tan, head of engineering at solar energy solutions provider Sunseap, was faced with a huge challenge - how to finish the project given contractors were unable to bring foreign workers out of their dormitories or into the country and supplies from overseas were also delayed.
