Featured in Solar leads the European recovery – 06-2020

Sink or swim

The impressive progress made by offshore wind arrays may be attracting a new group of PV developers looking to leave the constraints of the roof and free field behind. And while saltwater, wind and waves are no friend of PV, progress is being made in proving the potential applications.

By

Jonathan Gifford

15 Jun 2020

Image: SwimSol

Small companies with big ambitions, and a big challenge ahead of them. A number of fledgling solar innovators are attempting to expand the reach of PV to realms considered almost fanciful only a handful of years ago – from land, to inland bodies of water, to the sea. Given a growth rate of annual floating …

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