Solar Floating PV Plants News

SCCL is planning to establish floating solar PV power plants on water bodies in the state of Telangana, with a combined generational capability of 500 MW.

The national energy has actually authorized an agreement with the Total-owned Qair business formerly called Quadran International for a 200 kW floating solar power plant and a research study of Tunisian potential for the innovation.

The 27 MW Dutch task in Zwolle has actually been sold to a consortium including a provincial energy shift fund as well as a local power co-operative in a bargain backed by public financing.

The building of a floating solar energy plant in Seychelles will be delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Located on the shallows at Le Rocher, in the central Mahe area of Les Mamelles; the utility-scale floating solar PV system will certainly be the first in Africa

US business RETTEW has reveal the implementation of agreements with SolMare, LLC for the building and construction of one of the biggest US floating solar arrays for Clayton Sand Company in Jackson Township, New Jersey. SolMare, LLC will own and also run a 3.2 MWdc floating solar array at Clayton Sand Company's sand mining center, supplying all power needs with New Jersey's Net Metering program. This is the 2nd floating solar array to be formally introduced in New Jersey by RETTEW, following an effective project in the Borough of Sayreville (4.4 MWdc).

SECI has actually issued a tender for setting up of 15 MW floating solar PV nuclear power plant at the Nangal Pond in Bilaspur area of Himachal Pradesh.

NHPC Ltd is looking for Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) service providers for the 50 MW floating solar project at West Kallada in the state of Kerala.

Researchers in the Netherlands are trialing a floating solar installation based on flexible thin-film PV components. The suggestion behind their principle is that such modules, in combination with a recently made flexible racking system, will certainly produce a system able to roll with the activity of the water, rather than attempting to oppose it.

Designer 7C Solarparken has actually deployed a 729 kW floating system on a lake near Salzwedel. Power trader Next Kraftwerke will incorporate power produced at the site into its virtual nuclear power plant.

With Work finally starting on NTPC Ramagundam's Floating solar project, with a planned capacity of 100 MW, floating solar is back in focus. The Ramagundam project is being built on the balance reservoir of NTPC's Ramagundam Super Thermal Power Station, with a nameplate capacity of 2600 MW itself. The reservoir itself gets its water from the Sriram Sagar Project, a critical water project for Telangana state.

Norway's Statkraft is developing a 2 MW floating PV array, first announced a year and also a half back, at its 72 MW hydropower plant in Albania's Elbasan region. Norwegian floating PV expert Ocean Sun has agreed to provide technology for the EUR2 million plant.

German business Ecoligo is offering mini financial investment in the building and construction of a 69 kW floating solar plant on the tank of a blossom ranch.

Dutch water supplier Evides Waterbedrijf has actually appointed a 1.6 MW drifting PV plant at one of its facilities near Rotterdam. It is now considering the building and construction of more floating solar plants on 3 other storage tanks, including a 350-hectare water surface area.

Norwegian consultancy DNV GL has actually united large power players, floating PV professionals and also project developers right into a consortium that will aim to specify suggested methods for the floating solar organisation. Amongst the 14 participants are some large gamers in the field including EDP, EDF as well as Equinor, along with French floating modern technology service provider Ciel & Terre.

Australian designer Chuck Anderson's Lilypad is a 100% solar-powered rental property floating off Hand Beach in north Sydney.