Featured in Electric avenues – 09-2017

Out on the water

The rise of floating PV: Floating solar power solutions have emerged from a niche oddity to mainstream baseload; the latest Chinese tender set covers 1 GW worth of projects, potentially the new normal for FPV. Indeed, Ciel & Terre, the current market leader, says there could be 3 GW of FPV by 2020, per analysts’ predictions.

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Charles W. Thurston

05 Sep 2017

A floating PV project developed by Kyocera. | Image: Kyocera

Floating solar installations have become a more mainstream form of solar installation in a matter of years, providing less expensive, less regulated, and more versatile options than land-based arrays for PV in many situations. Hybrid solar-hydropower applications, distributed generation on water reservoirs and water treatment lakes are highlighting the new market for floating solar. Perhaps …

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