How Do Floating Solar Arrays Work

If you look at some of the kyocera projects in japan they link together into a mat and each float supports one solar panel.

How do floating solar arrays work.

The 23 000 panel array powers a nearby water treatment plant that is the source of drinking water for london s and southeast england. The floating solar power plant comprises floating system floating structure and floater. Floating solar or floating photovoltaics fpv is a solar array that floats upon a body of water. The solar panels are placed on a buoyant structure to keep them above the water s surface and are usually located on relatively calmer bodies of water such as ponds lakes and man made dam reservoirs.

These floating solar power plants can be installed upon ponds lakes rivers reservoirs and sea. To operate in and around water the materials used need to be made for marine environments. The floating system is hdpe based plastic. As here kyocera plans on using over 50 000 solar panels.

Floating solar panels could generate about 10 percent of u s. The technology we re using is very similar to the technology the japanese are using for their floating solar arrays. How it works floating solar panels are attached to interconnected plastic rafts that allow them to stay on top of the water. This floating solar array is the current record holder as the largest floating solar plant until japan finishes the yamakura dam project.