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Noria Energy launched a 1.5MW floating solar power system on the reservoir at Colombia’s Urrá Dam, the largest project of its kind in South America.

South America’s largest floating solar farm launched in Colombia

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California-based solar developer Noria Energy has launched a 1.5MW floating solar power system on the reservoir at Colombia’s Urrá Dam, the largest project of its kind in South America.

Noria conceived and led the development – with the help of its partners 1Solution, DISICO, G&C, Isigenere and Seaflex – as a pilot project for the local independent power producer Urrá. The project aims to demonstrate that hydroelectric dams dealing with fluctuating water levels can pair with floating solar generation to boost energy reliability and increase production.

The ‘Aquasol’ floating solar project has been installed at the 340MW Urrá hydropower plant in the Sinú River basin in Córdoba, Colombia. It comprises more than 2,800 solar modules and is expected to produce nearly 2,400 megawatt-hours of power in its first year, enough to offset the energy used to operate the dam. The project is also forecast to avoid more than 1,540 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year, and generate more than $1.2m in additional electric power revenue over 20 years.

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Source: Energy Monitor

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Proteus has floating solar panels with Sun-tracking technology that maximizes the amount of clean electricity it can produce.

The floating solar panels that track the sun

On a lake in the Netherlands, a shiny circular island floats, covered in dozens of shimmering solar panels.

But this is no normal solar array, nor even simply one of the many new floating solar farms being installed in lakes, reservoirs and coastal areas across the world. That’s because its panels are doing something none of these other floating solar farms can do: meticulously tracking and following the Sun as it moves across the sky, to catch as many rays as possible.

This glistening installation, named Proteus after the ancient Greek sea god, is among the first to combine floating solar panels with Sun-tracking technology – all in an effort to maximise the amount of clean electricity it can produce.

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Source: BBC

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