Ocean Winds and Aker Offshore Wind have formed a collaboration to build floating wind projects off the coast of Scotland. The firms, who are already partners in California, the United States, and South Korea, will now work together in the Scotland leasing phase. The two firms will make a joint proposal to Crown Estate Scotland by July 16th, 2021.
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FPV systems may play a significant role in RE deployment in the region, while providing additional economic, societal, and environmental benefits. Recent work has identified the potential benefits of FPV systems to include lower land acquisition and site preparation costs, improved solar PV performance, and reduced capital costs when FPV is co-located with hydropower. Despite growing interest in and literature on FPV systems, the understanding of the policy landscape, including the opportunities and barriers to FPV deployment, remains limited.
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Researchers at the European Commission’s Joint Research Center have assessed the potential of installing floating solar plants on 146 hydropower reservoirs in Africa. They concluded that, in addition to increasing installed capacity, the plants also reduce water evaporation, allowing for increased annual hydropower production.
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Portugal announced that it would conduct its third solar auction in September as it looks to allocate 500 MW of floating solar capacity. Through the current tender, which resulted in record-low prices, the country aims to support the deployment of floating solar on at least seven reservoirs through its next tender process. The proposed plants will be located next to hydropower plants so that existing grid infrastructure can be used. One of the selected dams, Alto Rabagão, already hosts a 220 kWp floating solar pilot project developed by EDP.
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Dust and soils have negative impacts on the efficiency of PV panels. Therefore, the importance of cleaning PV panels is considerable from both economic and performance points of view. A key factor to maximizing the economic advantage is the determination of cleaning times. There is no specified cleaning cycle for PV panels, and the soiling rate of the region mostly determines the cleaning frequency.
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Sunseap Group has signed a contract with Facebook to supply power from its 5 MWp offshore floating solar project located in the Straits of Johor in Singapore. According to a recent announcement by the company, this will be the largest offshore floating solar farm in Singapore on completion.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a loan of about 9.1 million Euros for the development of a 12.9 MW floating solar project in Albania. The project will be located on the Vau i Dejes hydropower reservoir, which is under the management of by Korporata Elektroenergjitike Shqiptare (KESH), an Albanian state utility.
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Vietnam backed by the Asian Development Bank has proposed launching tenders for 400 MW of floating solar projects in the country. Renewable energy developers will be able to bid for 50-100 MW under the first batch and 300 MW in the second batch. The ADB is looking for six consultants with environmental, social, and financial expertise to support the auction.
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This plant is the largest floating solar project in Bavaria and will supply power for the cement company Heidelberger Zement. The plant is estimated to provide 700,000 kWh per year, and it has installed 3,792 floats of the Isifloating 4.0 model that support 1,896 solar panels of 395 Wp.
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DBS Bank has provided a SGD 40 million loan to Sembcorp Industries to set up a 60 MWp floating solar photovoltaic (PV) system on Tengeh Reservoir in Tuas, Singapore. The project is expected to be commissioned in 2021.
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Norwegian renewable energy generator, Statkraft and Ocean Sun are ready to start the construction...
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The unavailability of large swathes of land has forced developers in the solar power segment to look elsewhere to set up solar power plants in a more sustainable manner. In this regard, canal tops, hybrid power and other such technologies have emerged as important solutions. A recent phenomenon of this is also the emergence of floating solar power plants, or floatovoltaics, which have found a considerable market in the Southeast Asian region.
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