Belgian consortium unveils offshore floating PV platform
Tractebel, DEME, and Jan De Nul will deploy a pilot offshore floating PV facility off the Belgian coast in the summer. The Seavolt floating platform is reportedly able to withstand difficult offshore conditions.
Only5mins! – How a floating solar-powered artificial leaf generates synthetic fuels
University of Cambridge researcher Dr Virgil Andrei sits down with pv magazine to discuss an innovative ultra-thin film device capable of generating clean synthetic fuels while floating merrily on the River Cam.
India’s NTPC tenders 260 MW of floating solar, 50 MW of ground-mount projects
NTPC Renewable Energy (NTPC REL), on behalf of its joint venture with DVC, has launched bidding for the construction of 260 MW of floating solar capacity and 50 MW of ground-mount PV projects at DVC reservoirs in India.
BayWa re unit completes floating PV plant in Austria
BayWa re’s ECOwind subsidiary and Austrian energy supplier EVN have finished building a 24.5 MWp floating PV plant in Grafenwörth, Austria. They claim it is the biggest such installation in Central Europe.
Only5mins! – Floating offshore PV in the Mediterranean
pv magazine speaks with Luciano Mule’Stagno, director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy at the University of Malta, about the prospects of floating offshore PV in Malta and the Mediterranean. He says offshore PV could become competitive with ground-mounted solar in some land-constrained countries.
Iberdrola to deploy 25 MW floating PV plant on gravel pit in France
Iberdrola has secured a new 25 MW floating PV project in a tender in the municipality of Kurtzenhouse, Alsace, France.
Floating PV reduces water evaporation in Brazilian reservoir by 60%
Brazilian and US researchers have evaluated the water evaporation rate of a floating PV system on a Brazilian reservoir. They said that the 130 kW installation reduced evaporation by 60%, and claimed that a 5 MW system could save enough water for 196 people per year.
Indian coal miner commissions utility-scale floating PV array
Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd. (SCCL) has commissioned 5 MW of a 15 MW floating solar plant on the Singareni Thermal Power Station reservoir in India.
Indonesian utility kicks off tender for 100 MW floating solar plant
PT PLN Nusantara Power has launched a tender for a floating PV project that will likely be built at a dam on the island of Java, Indonesia.
New model to predict safety of floating solar arrays
South Korean scientists have developed a way to determine when a floating PV system is safe to install in the field.
