China Starts Generating Power From World’s Biggest Floating Solar Plant; Take A Look

China Starts Generating Power From World’s Biggest Floating Solar Plant; Take A Look

China’s Three Gorges Group started producing power from a 150-megawatt floating solar plant in east China, the largest of its kind in the world, official Xinhua news agency reported. According to the media report, the solar power project in Huainan in Anhui province, developed by the new energy unit of state-run Three Gorges Group, is expected to come on stream by May 2018.

The one-billion-yuan Huainan project is a new experiment aimed at cutting the cost of constructing and operating solar power plants, Lu Chun, chairman of Three Gorges Group was cited as saying.

According to Three Gorges New Energy Corporation, the project features panels fixed to floats on the surface of a lake, which formed after a coal mine collapsed. Read More…

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