Floating PV installations can deliver efficiency gains in warmer climes, with water cooling PV cells and decreasing heat-related losses. Australian-Singaporean company Infratech is set to begin construction on Australia's first such array, located in Jamestown, South Australia. Floating arrays have previously been installed in India, Singapore and the U.S. Kyocera has developed and supplied a 2.9 MW array in Japan - where land availability issues present major challenges to PV developers. The Australian project will come in at 4 MW and will be spread across three water treatment ponds, with the electricity being produced supplying the wastewater facility itself and local businesses in the area. Infratech is funding the project itself and selling the power to the local ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...