Featured in Trade barriers spoil solar's party – 09-2019

Feathered friends turn foe

A floating PV array in the Netherlands has brought a community together while highlighting the value of module lever power electronics on water.

By

Jonathan Gifford

16 Sep 2019

Indian reservoirs could host 280 GW of floating solar, according to a study by The Energy and Resources Institute. | Image: Lingewaard Energie

In 2013, Frans van Herwijnen and his fellow project proponents began work on what they thought was a world first: a 2 MW solar array installed on a body of water. While during the course of the project he realized that floating PV systems had already been installed in China and Japan, the project team …

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