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 […]
France boasted the largest floating solar power plant in Europe and its first of this kind in the country. The project contains 47,000 solar panels installed on the body of water over the lake by […]
Although this power plant has low capacity, it is an offshore floating solar power plant and can start the spark to build similar projects in the same region. This power plant has the capacity of […]
Floating PV cumulative capacity globally reached over 1 GW in mid-2018 & since there is more and more news on new projects. But what are the motives behind this growth? Well “land” is priceless, for […]
Climate change has massively affected the melting process of polar icebergs which also leads to rising sea levels. The Netherlands, as a country with “low altitude” that is “connected directly to the north pole” by […]
BayWa r.e , BayWa’s renewable energy, is a subsidiary company of BayWa undertook to install and commission the Netherland’s largest floating solar power plant (FSPP). According to RenewableEnergyMagazine, the Sekdoorn project in the Netherlands, near […]
Some of the environmentalists have been criticizing solar photovoltaics (PV) for the additional space occupied. Especially they focus on the effects of ground-mounted solar systems. As a solution for this challenge, we can put forward […]
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