AS Published on Monday 12 October 2020 - n° 335 - Categories:floating power plant
Floating power plants (2nd part): the advancement of knowledge
As the vast majority of the 2.6 GW already installed have been built within the last five or six years, the products to be used are sometimes well known, such as panels, wiring, components and materials.
Experience is still fragmentary
AS Published on Monday 12 October 2020 - n° 335 - Categories:floating power plant
Floating power plants (part 1): the development of PV in the world
The first floating solar power plant was installed on a trial basis in 2007 in Aichi (Japan). In 2008, the first 175 kWp installation was built in California. Currently, the largest plant in China's Anhui province is 150 MW.
AS Published on Sunday 11 October 2020 - n° 335 - Categories:floating power plant
The cost difference between terrestrial and floating solar energy is narrowing.
In the United States, the cost difference between terrestrial and floating solar energy is narrowing. Over the life of a project, they have
AS Published on Sunday 11 October 2020 - n° 335 - Categories:floating power plant
Installing two-sided panels on floating power plants?
There is a technical contradiction: there has to be a sufficient inclination for the water to be reflected.
L R AS Published on Sunday 11 October 2020 - n° 335 - Categories:floating power plant
Call for tenders for four floating power plants in Brazil
The Brazilian state of Sao Paulo has issued a call for tenders for the construction of four floating solar power plants of a size
L R AS Published on Saturday 10 October 2020 - n° 335 - Categories:floating power plant
First PV park equipped with storage in metropolitan France
The Sorégies Group and the young company ZE Energy inaugurate the first PV park equipped with a storage battery in mainland France.
At the Senillé-Saint-Sauveur solar power plant, near Poitiers, which produces
L R AS Published on Sunday 4 October 2020 - n° 334 - Categories:China, power plants > 200MW
The world's largest solar power plant is in a Chinese desert
The world's largest solar power plant goes into operation in the desert of the remote province
L R AS Published on Sunday 27 September 2020 - n° 333 - Categories:floating power plant
200 MW floating solar power plant in South Korea
South Korea's SK Group plans to build a 200 MW floating solar power plant as part of the floating solar complex
L R AS Published on Saturday 4 July 2020 - n° 327 - Categories:power plants > 200MW
Major power plant construction contract for Trina Solar
Trina Solar has been awarded engineering, procurement and construction services contracts to build 970 MW in Europe and the United States.
L R AS Published on Monday 29 June 2020 - n° 326 - Categories:power plants > 200MW, Australia
Next 720 MW solar farm in Australia
Australia authorises the construction of a 720 MW solar farm coupled with a battery system up to 400 MWh, to be located in the state of New South Wales
PV Magazine of June 26th
L R AS Published on Monday 29 June 2020 - n° 326 - Categories:floating power plant
Test on thin layers at sea
In the Netherlands, Solliance scientists are testing a floating installation using flexible thin films rather than panels. The aim is to check whether such an installation would be able to adapt to the fluctuations of the sea,
L R AS Published on Sunday 7 June 2020 - n° 325 - Categories:floating power plant
The call for tenders launched by the Société du Canal de Provence (SCP) was unsuccessful.
The call for tenders launched by the Société du Canal de Provence (SCP) in order to install a floating power station with followers on the Barjaquets reserve (PACA region), did not receive any applications.
L R AS Published on Saturday 6 June 2020 - n° 325 - Categories:50 to 200 MW power plants
BayWa r.e. has commissioned its second Spanish solar power plant
BayWa r.e. has commissioned its second 50 MWp Spanish solar power plant in Andalusia (Don Rodrigo 2). The energy produced
AS Published on Monday 1 June 2020 - n° 324 - Categories:Germany, floating power plant
Baywa r.e. becomes a specialist in the construction of floating power plants
In two years, Baywa r.e. has developed its own floating solar technology and installed nearly 50 MW of floating photovoltaic projects in the Netherlands. This was made possible by the acquisition of
L R AS Published on Friday 22 May 2020 - n° 323 - Categories:50 to 200 MW power plants
Enel combines a solar power plant with a wind power complex
Enel launches the construction of a 61 MW solar power plant in Chile, in the Atacama desert, close to a 90 MW wind farm complex