Several months ago, Shell New Energies announced that there would be two solar farms in the Netherlands with a combined generation capacity of 26MW designed and constructed by UK renewables developer Anesco. At present, another project of 1.62MW floating PV plant has been constructed by the facilities of Dutch water supplier Evides Waterbedrijf. The supplier is going to construct more floating solar panel system on three other reservoirs, which includes a 350-hectare water surface.

The PV plant is expected to meet about 15% of the electricity needs of the company’s neighbouring facilities and produce an estimated 1.7 million KWH a year. The company said that, there will be more floating solar plants built on its other three reservoirs, including the 350-hectare Biesbosch reservoir. It is estimated that 100% of its power demand could be met by 30% of solar panels installed on the water surfaces.

From the Netherlands’ floating solar plant project, we can know that countries with shallow inland water surfaces have advantages of making full use of water surfaces to build floating PV and produce electricity. Now, more and more countries choose to build floating solar plant, to some great extent because of the convenience of floating solar mounting system and high power generation efficiency.

In addition, with the ease up of Covid-19, many countries have already slowly returned to work. Those countries in summer have started to install different solar mounting brackets, especially pitched tin roof solar brackets and ground solar mount bracket.