floating solar

From 2023-2025, investments in Southeast Asian renewables will exceed US$76 billion, and this investment amount will likely continue to rise. 

While still at a relatively early stage in its development, the US floating PV market is a key one for Sungrow FPV. PV Tech sat down with VP Lei Wang to gain his insights into the US and, more broadly, the global market.

Masdar and PLN Nusantara Power will expand the capacity of the 145MW Cirata floating solar project in Indonesia to up to 500MW.

Q Energy will begin construction on a floating solar project in north-eastern France this month, which will have a capacity of 74.3MW.

Sungrow has unveiled its latest floating solar system, which it has said is “suitable for the North American market”.

Although the floating solar market is expanding, the top 10 countries that will have more than 500MW of cumulative floating solar installations by 2031 are entirely from Asia.

Solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm SunAsia Energy will build 1.3GW of floating solar PV (FPV) projects on the Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines.

SJVN will build and operate a new 90MW floating solar project in the Omkareshwar Floating Solar Park in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Energy platform ACEN has planned to develop 1GW of floating solar PV (FPV) in Laguna, in the northern Philippines.

Uncertainty surrounding ownership models of large-scale solar projects raises a question: are such facilities simply too big to succeed?