Belgium: Flemish government grants feed-in premium of €0.078 to megawatt-scale floating project
The electricity produced by the floating array will power the Cable Park aquatic park, with surplus power injected into the grid. The project is part of a series of floating plants the Flemish government has been supporting since October.
20MW floating-ground mount PV project gets 25-year PPA in Malawi
The plant is being developed by German company Droege Energy as an unsolicited IPP project. The electricity produced by the floating array will be bought by local utility Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi Limited (ESCOM).
A floating solar island archipelago
Dutch water borne PV specialist Floating Solar has begun construction of a 25 MW project consisting of installations spread across a reservoir owned by Dutch water provider PWN. Construction has started on three floating arrays.
Dutch government plans 100 MW floating PV project at dredging spoil depot
Two government agencies and the Port of Rotterdam are planning to deploy the installation at De Slufter, a 250-hectare depot for contaminated sediment.
Europe’s largest floating PV project under development in the Netherlands
Dutch developer Groenleven is planning a 48 MW floating installation at a depleted sand extraction site near Emmen, in Drenthe province.
Ciel & Terre completes 70 MW solar array in China — correction
The project was awarded under a 1 GW tender intended to install renewable generation capacity in former mining areas where subsidence and flooding have left huge basins of standing water.
Floating PV offers alternative to grid outages in South Africa
A 60 kW floating array was deployed by New Southern Energy at the reservoir of a fruit farm near Franschhoek, in the Western Cape Province. A second phase of the project will also include storage.
Floating solar reaches new territories
In Cambodia, Singapore’s Cleantech is building a 10 MW solar plant including a 2.7 MW floating section, and in Lithuania, state-owned utility Lietuvos Energija is deploying a floating plant at the Kruonis pumped storage hydroelectric power plant.
Tender for 20 MW of floating solar-plus-60 MWh storage in Indian archipelago
The Solar Energy Corporation of India has invited bids for the development of an aggregate capacity of 20 MW of lagoon-based floating PV with 60 MWh of battery-based storage systems in the union territory of Lakshadweep.
Indian state-owned utilities tender 45 MW of floating solar projects
Following power company NTPC’s 20 MW tender for Rajasthan and 15 MW procurement for Himachal Pradesh, Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited has invited bids to develop 10 MW of floating PV in Hisar. The deadline for bid submission is on March 1.
