Yet Another Claim For World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant

Yet Another Claim For World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant

The “Floating Solar” is the new concept floating around these days, where a giant floating solar panel or a frame of panels are placed in reservoirs of water. Both India and Japan stake claim at building the world’s largest floating solar power plants. In July of 2014, India’s National Hydro Power Corporation announced plans to set up a 50 MW solar photovoltaic project over the water bodies in the southern state of Kerala. Later in September, Kyocera proclaimed that they would be constructing the largest floating solar plant in Kato City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. This would be a 2.9 MW installation. In Japan, this seems to be a viable option due to the lack of space for a power plant of that magnitude on land. At the moment the largest floating power plant is in Okegawa, Saitama prefecture, Japan.