World’s Largest Hydro-Floating Solar Farm Goes Live in Thailand (2021)

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Came across this from a BBC News story, which also has some great video.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-63595541

I'm kind of surprised I haven't heard of more hydropower reservoir + floating solar installation... it seems like an excellent supply/demand/land-area solution!

It’s gotta be so expensive to protect against corrosion, stay current and salt covering up the panels. I can believe it would be a good deal

Most (all?) reservoirs should be freshwater, given that Atlantropa was never constructed.

It's an interesting question for counterexamples.

Afaik, inland salt lakes tend to be below sea level, and I don't think there are too many (any?) ocean->inlet hydro projects. Presumably you'd do wave generation there instead.

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