Innovative Zero-angle structure for floating solar plants can lower the initial capital costs of the plants. Because it needs little material per kilowatt of electricity produced. The structure consists of rafts which have three main […]
The share of floating solar in the global annual installation of solar power was less than 1% in 2018, however, that year this sector faced the steepest increase in its annual added capacity. According to […]
In only 8 weeks 40,000 solar PVs were installed by BayWa r.e in August 2019. The project capacity was 14.5 MWp, and was named Sekdoorn, located near a city named Zwolle in the Netherlands. The […]
According to a study by Dutch consultancies Berenschot and Kalavasta, Netherlands can reach anywhere from 38 GW to 125 GW solar capacity by 2050. This report shows that outcomes vary based on four different scenarios. […]
Romande Energie is installing 448 kW of floating arrays on the Lac des Toules reservoir, located at an altitude of 1,810 meters in the Swiss Alps. The installation will be operating under extreme weather conditions, […]
According to the preliminary report released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) of Japan, the incident was due to anchor failure. The island itself was held by 420 anchors and 823 mooring […]
On September 9th of 2019 typhoon number 15 hit the Chiba prefecture and Yamakura dam that holds the country’s largest floating solar farm. The typhoon destroyed two-thirds of the plant and caused fire in some […]
Companies Saipem and Equinor have signed an agreement to build a nearshore floating solar power plant. “The technology is a modular concept designed for easy fabrication, which is based on an idea developed by Moss […]
According to a recent report from the World Bank, the global potential of FPV, even under moderate assumptions, is 400 Gigawatt all over the world. Floating Photovoltaic (FPV) firstly appeared as an option to extend […]
Ocean Sea One project, the first offshore floating solar farm in the Dutch North Sea, was able to survive from several winter storms including harsh Ciara storm intact. In the early days of the last […]
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