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First-of-its-kind project will harness hydropower from wastewater

Envirotec Magazine

Neil Beaumont, Horizons Hydro Energy Team Lead, said: “Scottish Water has a vast array of land, property, and operational assets that offer enormous potential when it comes to renewables. We need to be open to fresh ideas and bold in our delivery when it comes to achieving our green energy ambitions.

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U.S. Department of Energy announces Groundbreaking Hydro Prize winners

Renewable Energy World

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has announced two winners of the Groundbreaking Hydro Prize, which challenged innovators to come up with new solutions to support hydropower project development by starting at square one — the foundation. Two teams were chosen as winners.

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Duke Plans Largest Floating PV Project in the Southeast

GreenTechMedia

Duke Energy will build its first floating solar array at Fort Bragg, a U.S. That potential is even greater when FPV systems are paired with hydropower, reaching 4,400 to 5,700 GW. NREL considered hybrid FPV-hydropower systems that could share a substation and transmission.

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Tidal energy firm wins seabed lease to support Shetland clean energy drive

Envirotec Magazine

Tidal energy company Nova Innovation (Nova) plans to develop its largest tidal energy array to date at Yell Sound in Shetland and boost decarbonisation of the local energy supply. The firm says this new tidal energy site will build on the success of the world’s first offshore tidal array that Nova created in neighbouring Bluemull Sound.

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Fun with Floating Solar Panels

GreenTech Gazette

By 2025, Indonesia plans to develop another 60 floating arrays. It’s said to be the largest floating solar array of its kind in North America. In May 2022, the energy provider New Jersey Resources began work on a floating solar array at a water supply reservoir owned by New Jersey American Water Company in Short Hills.

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Albania’s first floating solar plant starts commercial operations

Renewable Energy World

The project is placed at the Banja reservoir in Albania, where Statkraft is operating its 72-MW Banja hydropower plant. Vietnamese 500-MW floating solar and storage attracts investment from SEACEF Construction starts on California’s largest floating solar array. Each unit consists of a floating ring and a thin membrane.

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The State of Floating Solar: Bigger Projects, Climbing Capacity, New Markets

GreenTechMedia

Although floating solar systems typically involve higher costs than traditional ground-mount arrays, project sizes are increasing, which will bring costs down. For example, floating solar arrays can be installed on hydroelectric dam reservoirs. There will be at least 2.4 The challenge: Balance-of-system and soft costs.