Singapore’s geography places a unique set of challenges for that nation’s people, businesses, and government on their goal for renewable energy adoption. 

The vast majority of this nation is urbanized, full of skyscrapers and dozen-story apartment buildings, lacking the wide-open space required for traditional solar energy farms to be installed.   Innovations related to “floating solar panels” have been endorsed and funded by the Singaporese national government to take advantage of the space atop of the surface of the nation's water reservoirs. The aforementioned tall buildings have been affixed with solar panels on their roofs. However, due to weather systems along the equator where Singapore is located, an average day receives less than four hours of direct-sunlight on which solar power can be generated. Pair that with the high demand of air conditioning in homes, Singapore may never see 100% adoption of renewable energy via solar alone. However, the innovations related to the unique demands and challenges of this Asian nation have seen an increase in priority amongst all concerned parties, a notable and laudable step in the right direction for a reduction in reliance on fossil fuels.