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Statkraft, Ocean Sun total Albania's very first floating solar power plant
Statkraft's floating solar plant on the tank of its Banja hydropower plant in Albania has 2 MW in capacity and also consists of four units. It is the only such power plant in Southeastern Europe with the exception of a few pilot projects in Turkey.
Feb 17, 2023 // Plants, Floating PV, Statkraft, Solar Power, Ocean Sun, hydropower plants, renewable energy sources, hybrid power plants, floating solar power plants
Baywa offers 'largest floating PV park outside China'
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.
Jul 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, floating PV, Europe, Netherlands, Baywa re, Matthias Taft
South Korea's biggest floating PV plant now on the internet
Designer Scotra claims that the project is the second-biggest floating PV variety outside of China.
Aug 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, South Korea, floating PV, Asia, Scotra
Floating solar park starts commercial operations in Germany
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.
Jun 22, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, Germany, floating PV, Europe, 7C Solarparken, Steven De Proost
REC Silicon prepared to power down the rest of its operation
The Norwegian polysilicon and silane gas producer has announced it will listen to offers for its production facility in Butte Montana after mothballing its other manufacturing operation – at Moses Lake, Washington – in the summer.
Oct 4, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Tariffs, USA, China, Trump, Asia, North America, Silicon ASA, REC Silicon, Barack Obama
LEAG Advances Major Floating Solar Project in Brandenburg
LEAG embarks on a groundbreaking journey to power 8,000 homes with Germany's largest floating solar park on Cottbuser Ostsee—innovative energy beneath the serene lake surface!
Oct 21, 2024 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, PV Power Plant, Brandenburg, LEAG
Arkema keen to ride bifacial wave with new polymer solution launch
Materials firm Arkema is lining up a bifacial-ready backsheet polymer solution for release this year, having identified the trend for bifacial panels to represent a significant opportunity for the group.
Jan 31, 2020 // Manufacturing News, bifacial, Bifacial PV, backsheet, bifacial solar, polymer, arkema, kynar
North Rhine-Westphalia Pushes Law Change To Unlock Larger Floating Solar
Germany’s NRW files a Bundesrat motion to relax strict surface-area and shoreline limits on floating PV, aiming to turn quarry lakes into gigawatts of clean power.
May 28, 2025 // Floating PV, Germany, Europe, NRW, Bundesrat
RWE Builds Solar-Storage at Hambach Mine
RWE AG is constructing an 8.4-MW solar farm with an 8-MWh battery storage system in Germany, consisting of 22,000 bifacial modules that will power 3,100 households. The project is part of a EUR 4 billion (USD 4.34bn) plan to build 1,000 MW of renewable energy in the Rhenish mining district by 2030.
Aug 25, 2023 // Plants, Storage, Germany, Europe, rwe
Rainy Solar completes 1.18-MW rooftop community solar array in Illinois
Rainy Solar, a division of Rainy Investments, commissioned a 1.18-MW rooftop community solar project in Elgin, Illinois.
Oct 10, 2019 // Rooftop PV, USA, rooftop PV, North America, Illinois, Rainy Solar, Ken “Bucky Buckman
REC Silicon hit by call-in of $17m loan related to failed wafer operation
Finnish lender Nordea has called in a NOK150 million indemnity loan thought to have been taken out by REC Silicon ASA as a result of the bankruptcy of its Norwegian wafer manufacturing arm seven years ago.
Dec 23, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, Washington, Europe, North America, Norway, REC Silicon, Nordea
A flexible approach to offshore solar
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.
Jun 26, 2020 // Technology, Floating PV, pv modules, Europe, Netherlands, thin-film, flexible
Ojjo's Earth Truss System now suitable with many major tracker manufacturers
Ojjo revealed it has actually increased the compatibility of its trademarked Earth Truss System throughout top-tier tracker producers: Array Technologies, Nextracker and currently consisting of GameChange Solar.
May 19, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Ojjo, Earth Truss System
The major floating PV plant in Saemangeum (South Korea) stands up for its rights
The Ministry of National Defense of South Korea assures that a major floating PV generator that is planned to be located in the Saemangeum tidal flat will give no impact on military flight and landing operations of United States military forces based nearby.
Nov 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Floating PV, South Korea, floating PV, Asia, Choi Hyun-soo
Statkraft records battery power record in Ireland
Norwegian designer just recently leveraged its power storage assets under monitoring to provide 60MWh over two
Jul 29, 2022 // Storage, Ireland, Europe, Statkraft, Nick Heyward