Masdar’s first Malaysian project would deliver Southeast Asia’s largest floating solar plant, signaling growing confidence in ...

Anchoring and mooring need to be optimised as projects increase in size. Image: BayWa r.e. As the floating solar sector becomes more mature, larger projects are being deployed in a range of water ...

Tension Buoy from Fred. Olsen 1848 is enabling floating solar arrays to ride water-level swings in reservoirs and dams ...

Floating solar offers many advantages but also unique risks that insurers and asset owners should fully comprehend. Image: Sungrow. As a fast-growing segment of the industry, floating solar is also a ...

A project to float a solar array on a community reservoir in New York may serve as a template to grow renewable energy on similar water bodies across the nation. The small town of Cohoes, N.Y., is ...

Floating solar panels haven’t gained much traction in the United States, but they’re becoming more common in places like China and South Korea. A new study from Oregon State University suggests they ...

A 540-megawatt (MW) hybrid floating solar–floating wind farm is going to be developed off Italy’s southern coast, in the Ionian Sea. Dutch-Norwegian offshore solar company SolarDuck, Italian ...

In a new monthly column for pv magazine, the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) describes how regions that don’t experience waves larger than 6 m nor winds stronger than 15 m/s could generate ...

In a world of finite land, solar farms can take up a lot of space. But there’s a solution for that scarcity: panels that float. In nearly a dozen countries around the world, floating solar farms are ...

From a small California winery to a large-scale energy project in China, floating photovoltaics — or “floatovoltaics”— are gaining in popularity. Commonly installed over artificial water bodies, from ...

A consortium of Singaporean universities and companies will study the feasibility of integrating a hybrid floating solar project with ocean, tidal, and wind capacity. If successful, the parties plan ...