Featured in The fires feeding mono's rise – 11-2018

Staying afloat, whatever the weather

From a little known niche just a few years ago, floating solar has quickly grown to more than 1 GW of installed capacity worldwide, and a source of great hope for the industry’s future, particularly in countries where space for solar is at a premium. pv magazine spoke with experts from leading floating PV test centers in Singapore and the Netherlands to outline the challenges still faced by floating PV as the technology moves towards major growth.

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Mark Hutchins

22 Nov 2018

Image: SERIS

In the second half of 2018 so far, a raft of announcements has been made concerning planned floating PV (FPV) installations – a 47 MW project in Vietnam, 17 MW in the South of France, and as much as 300 MW being mulled over as part of a massive hybrid generation project in Ukraine.“We believe …

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