By Douglas Broom
How do
you increase your solar energy output when you need all your land for
agriculture and for housing? Answer: take to the water. That’s just what they
are doing in Japan.
The world’s first floating solar plant
was built in Japan, in Aichi Prefecture in central Honshu. The country’s many
inland lakes and reservoirs are now home to 73 of the world's 100 largest
floating solar plants and account for half of those plants’ 246 megawatts of
solar capacity.
Hyogo Prefecture in southern Honshu has
almost 40,000 lakes and already hosts nearly half the floating solar capacity of the world’s 100 largest
plants. Many plants are small scale, helping the region to kick-start the move
to distributed local power generation which the World Economic Forum has identified as the key to transforming the world’s power supply.
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