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Land is hard to find for solar farms. Asia’s answer? Float them.
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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2025
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I've seen this in the USA too. A local water co-op put a 1.2MW array floating on top of one the municipal water reservoirs. Along with carport and building PV arrays, they offsets 50% of the electricity consumed by the facility.
Their floating array also offsets some water lost to evaporation, but its too early for measurable numbers on that front so far.
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