The city of
Huainan, China, is small city always known for its coal mine. However, who
would imagine such a city of “dirty” fossil energy has become a pilot in the
renewable energy industry?
The world’s
largest floating solar plant has been established on an area of water in
Huainan. This solar farm is able to produce 40MW of power and to supply clean
energy to the city.
Putting the
panels out on the water has a number of benefits, such as not taking up
precious farm land or real estate, reducing the evaporation from the reservoir,
utilising the cool wind above water to prolong the life of panel and increase
the production efficiency.
And the
sweetest part of this project is that the water is a naturally flooded former
coal mining land. Due to the previous mining work, such flooded area is not
suitable for either recreation or food production purposes, thus there’s little
ecology concern in implementing massive facilities at such area.
Comparing
to the wind farm VIC government plans to build over the sea, and the money it
plans to spend, scalable solar farm on a waste land seems to be a smarter plan
to me.
http://www.designboom.com/technology/sungrow-floating-solar-plant-huainan-china-05-25-2017/
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