The headline caught my interest - "Google To Install Its First Floating Solar Project in Asia" https://lnkd.in/fpptT8y Digging a bit deeper, though, it turned out that it the installation is not floating at all, but, like the solar plants above the canals in India, built on piles. https://lnkd.in/fuCY_U6 Nonetheless it underlines the problems with sourcing land for large-scale projects in reasonable distance to the consumers that is powering our industry.

Not all water bodies can be covered with floating solar. Indian canals are drying out regularly, so do some irrigation ponds. The industrial water ponds of a customer of mine have to be cleaned every 2-3 years which is impossible with floating solar on top of it - we found a different solution.

However, this is a nice addition to the 400 GW of floating solar that the World Bank predicts.

Googles pile-mounted solar site in Taiwan