Floating solar farms have moved from novelty to serious infrastructure, turning reservoirs, lakes and sheltered coastal waters into power plants. As solar capacity races past 1,200 G worldwide, ...

Germany has quietly flipped the switch on a new kind of solar plant, one that stands upright on water instead of lying flat on land or reservoirs. The world’s first floating vertical solar farm is ...

Wood Mackenzie forecasts 1.7GW of floating solar PV installations in 2024. Chart: Wood Mackenzie. Wood Mackenzie has forecast cumulative floating solar PV (FPV) installations to reach 77GW by 2033.

French floating PV specialist Ciel & Terre has unveiled its new floating solar system, WattRack. Designed to build high-power floating solar plants, WattRack is a semi-rigid system that removes ...

Alona Armstrong receives funding from UKRI and the solar industry. Lancaster University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Bangor University provides funding as a member of ...

Q Energy and partners recently inaugurated a 74.3 MW floating PV plant in France – the largest of its kind in Europe. pv magazine visited the site to examine the technologies and innovations behind ...

How might floating solar energy projects impact wild birds and vice versa? A paper outlines key considerations for a growing floating solar industry. From a small California winery to a large-scale ...