Renewable energy producer Q Energy is now building Europe’s largest floating solar farm on a brownfield site in northwestern France. The floating solar farm is called Les Ilots Blandin, and it’s going ...

The 5MW offshore solar project will be located within German utility RWE’s OranjeWind (Hollandse Kust West VII) wind farm off the west coast of the Netherlands. Image: SolarDuck. A new European ...

Floating solar could help meet clean-energy goals, but researchers found ecological trade-offs vary widely, showing why each ...

Officials at Del-Co Water Company, a nonprofit cooperative in north central Ohio, were looking for ways to add solar power to reduce the carbon footprint of their energy-intensive pump systems. But ...

Ground mounted solar PV and rooftops with solar panels are becoming ubiquitous. Now, imagine solar panels floating on water. Floating solar (or floating photovoltaic, FPV) is an emerging trend, and ...

From a small California winery to a large-scale energy project in China, floating photovoltaics — or “floatovoltaics”— are gaining in popularity. Commonly installed over artificial water bodies, from ...

A project to float a solar array on a community reservoir in New York may serve as a template to grow renewable energy on similar water bodies across the nation. The small town of Cohoes, N.Y., is ...

When Joe Seaman-Graves, the city planner for the working class town of Cohoes, New York, Googled the term “floating solar,” he didn’t even know it was a thing. What he did know is that his tiny town ...

State officials have granted a long-sought waiver for a floating solar project on the Wanaque Reservoir, clearing the way for developers to reapply for New Jersey’s incentive program for large-scale ...

Earlier this month, the US Army launched a large floating solar array at Camp Mackall on Fort Bragg in North Carolina— the country’s largest domestic military base. This launch marks a critical moment ...

China’s government-owned utility State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) has launched the world’s first commercial offshore floating solar that’s paired with an offshore wind turbine. SPIC is one of ...