Floating Solar

Sinn Power has deployed a 1.8 MW vertical solar array on a quarry lake in the Bavarian municipality of Gilching. The company highlights the ecological benefits of the vertical system configuration and, perhaps surprisingly, its high resistance to storms.

The new Fusio floating structure features a triangular design and is said to be particularly suited to markets such as India and Southeast Asia. Tilt angles can be configured at either 5° or 12°.

Researchers have tested a 9 x 11 floating box array for offshore photovoltaics in a large wave flume, under regular and irregular wave sequences. They have placed wireless gyroscopes on three of the boxes, representing the front, middle, and rear positions.

GAIL (India) Ltd has invited bids to set up a 17.5 MW (AC) grid-connected floating solar plant on engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) at its Pata facility in the Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh

An international research team has tested a floating PV system with a “soft-connected” configuration under offshore conditions, using six modular pontoons linked by elastic bar elements to simulate mooring lines and connection ropes.

The PAT-positive distributed renewable energy player, backed by Japan’s Mitsui & Co. and Chubu Electric Power, is targeting a 1 GW portfolio within five years, with rooftop solar, floating PV, and rural electrification at the center of its growth strategy.

A new study by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has estimated India’s total solar potential at 10,830 gigawatts (GW), significantly higher than the previous 2014 assessment of 748 GW by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). The study revisits conventional solar deployment areas such as barren and unculturable lands and explores additional avenues to expand the country’s solar potential.

Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd (NPCIL) has approached Ciel & Terre for installing a floating solar plant on a sea water dyke at its Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

Ciel & Terre has announced the completion of a 120 MWp floating solar array at Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh. The installation features many firsts by the company, including rock bolt anchoring, customized floating inverter barge based on reinforced fibre glass polymer, and floating system built using spin welding method.

NTPC Renewable Energy Ltd is accepting bids to set up a grid-connected 56 MW floating solar PV project with 60 MW/240 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) on a turnkey basis at its North Karanpura thermal power station in Jharkhand.