BCSEA E-News - Floating Solar: A Crazy Big Idea?
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FLOATING SOLAR - A Crazy Big Idea?
By This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. APRIL 2, 2015
This is a crazy big idea. But how crazy?
In Japan. Kyocera is building a floating solar PV plant on a reservoir behind the Yamakura Dam, east of Tokyo, in partnership with the French company Ciel & Terre. When completed in March 2016 it will cover 44.5 acres and power nearly 5,000 Japanese households.
BC has plenty of lakes and reservoirs, so could we do the same here? Okanagan Lake covers 86,000 acres. If solar was installed on 10% of its surface, it would generate 3,000 GWh a year, sufficient to power 270,000 households. Swimming facilities and docks for boats could turn the array into a pleasurable public amenity.
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