The global solar industry, especially PV developers, are contending with restricted land availability and rising land costs for ground-mount solar projects so the demand for floating solar installations is expanding by leaps and bounds. According to Wood Mackenzie, the worldwide floating solar industry will reach 6 gigawatts by 2031. ThisContinue Reading
If floating solar panels are deployed on the more than 379,000 hydro reservoirs globally, the resultant hybrid systems could generate anywhere from 16% to 40% of the world’s demand for electricity. In a press release, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) says adding floating solar panels to bodies of waterContinue Reading
Far Niente Winery in Napa Valley, California was probably the world’s first non-experimental floating solar array installation way back in 2008. They completed an array of 2,296 solar panels, 994 of which floated on pontoons tethered to the bottom of the winery’s pond. Since then floating photovoltaics have proliferated inContinue Reading
