An Old Crumbled Coal Mine Area in China Becomes the World’s Biggest Floating Solar Power Plant Updated On Mon, Jan 8th, 2018 by Saurenergy The solar ranch, which is being worked in Huainan, takes the record-breaking title from another solar plant inside the city that at present produces 40 megawatts. An old crumbled coal mine in China is being given new life as the area of the world’s biggest drifting solar based homestead. The solar ranch, which is being […] Read more
Columbia Engineers Develop Floating Solar Fuels Rig for Seawater Electrolysis Updated On Fri, Dec 29th, 2017 by Saurenergy The electrolyzer component of this device is based on a simple, membraneless design that enables efficient operation with high product purity and without active pumping of the electrolyte. In a single hour, more energy from the sun hits the Earth than all the energy used by humankind in an entire year. Imagine if the sun’s […] Read more
Hydrogen Producing Floating Solar Cells Developed Updated On Tue, Dec 19th, 2017 by Saurenergy A novel photovoltaic-powered electrolysis device which can operate as a stand-alone platform that floats on open water is discovered by the researchers from Columbia University in the US. Floating solar cells competent of utilizing sun energy to produce hydrogen fuel from water have been developed by the scientists. Currently, NASA’s space program is using hydrogen […] Read more
China Starts World’s Biggest Floating Solar Project Updated On Mon, Dec 11th, 2017 by Saurenergy The one billion yuan floating solar power project in Anhui province, developed by the Three Gorges Group, is to be constructed in May next year. China’s Three Gorges Group is building a 150-megawatt floating solar plant in the eastern part of country, the largest of its kind in the world, official Xinhua news agency reported. […] Read more
India Successfully Commissioned Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Updated On Tue, Dec 5th, 2017 by Saurenergy Through this solar power plant, as many as 7.5 lakh units of power will be transmitted to the KSEB’s Padinjarathara substation. In a significant development, India’s largest floating solar power plant in Kerala has successfully commissioned by Power minister M M Mani on the Banasura Sagar reservoir at Padinjarethara in Wayanad. According to the Kerala […] Read more
India’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant Set to Be Commissioned Updated On Fri, Dec 1st, 2017 by Saurenergy The project with 500 kWp (Kilowatt peak) initiated on March 10, 2016, is the biggest Floating Solar Power Plant the country will have. The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is set to commission India’s largest Floating Solar Power Plant to be built on the Banasura Sagar Dam at Padinharethara in Wayanad district. The commissioning will be announced […] Read more
World’s Largest Floating Solar Power Plant to Be Built in Indonesia by UAE’s Masdar and PJB Updated On Thu, Nov 30th, 2017 by Saurenergy The plant to be built in about 225 hectares of the Cirata hydroelectric plant reservoir. United Arab Emirates based company Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co (Masdar) and Indonesian power utility’s unit Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PJB) collaborated to build the ‘To Be’ world’s biggest floating photovoltaic plant of 200MW in PJB owned […] Read more
A 24MW Floating Solar Power Plant in Tuticorin to Be Setup By SPIC Updated On Wed, Nov 29th, 2017 by Saurenergy EDAC Engineering will be responsible to provide support for construction of the floating solar power plant. The Southern India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) announced during a conference on ‘Climate change mitigation in manufacturing industries’, to set up a 24MW floating solar power plant to be built by Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation (SPIC), a […] Read more
India’s Largest Floating Solar Plant Gets Commissioned Updated On Tue, Oct 17th, 2017 by Saurenergy The solar photovoltaic panels of the floating solar farm have been installed on 18 floating platforms made of ferrocement floaters with hollow insides. The construction works of the largest floating solar plant in the country have been completed at the Banasura Sagar reservoir in Wayanad. The 500 kWp (kilowatt peak) solar plant of the KSEB […] Read more
