Featured in Energy Storage Highlights 2018

Testing the water

If India covers just one third of its major water reservoirs with floating solar installations, it could generate as much as 700 GW of solar power. However, it’s still early days for floating solar in the country, given the lack of technical experience and higher implementation costs.

By

Uma Gupta

11 Sep 2018

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Seeing the merits in optimal land use, India has joined the floating solar race, where China already has a strong foothold. India has to date installed less than 1 MW of floating PV, but the 10 GW target indicated by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has set the foundation for rapid growth.A 5 MW …

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