RAYONG: A giant pond inside SCG Chemicals' plant at Rayong's Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate was originally developed to deal with a water shortage crisis that crippled production in 2007. The 20-rai pond, equivalent to about 10 football fields, has become an experimental site and the country's first floating solar farm.
For visitors, it looks like a floating mirror in a pond. Almost half of it has been covered with 3,400 photovoltaic cells to convert the sun's energy into electricity.
These cells stand on a special pontoon the company has created for this purpose.
