China's Three Gorges Group started producing power from a 150-megawatt floating solar plant in east China, the largest of its kind in the world, official Xinhua news agency reported. According to the media report, the solar power project in Huainan in Anhui province, developed by the new energy unit of state-run Three Gorges Group, is expected to come on stream by May 2018. The one-billion-yuan Huainan project is a new experiment aimed at cutting the cost of constructing and operating solar power plants, Lu Chun, chairman of Three Gorges Group was cited as saying. (Image: Reuters) -
According to Three Gorges New Energy Corporation, the project features panels fixed to floats on the surface of a lake, which formed after a coal mine collapsed. (Image: Reuters)
Floating solar is getting bigger in China, where ground-mounted projects are not used to full capacity because of grid congestion. (Image: Reuters) 
The Three Gorges New Energy Corporation has invested $151 million into constructing the world’s biggest floating solar power project. (Image: Reuters) 
The earlier biggest floating solar power project of 40 MW was constructed by Asia’s largest inverter manufacturer Sungrow, also in the Anhui Province. (Image: Reuters) -
On December 4, the largest floating solar plant of India was inaugurated by Kerala Electricity Minister M M Mani at the Banasura Sagar dam in Wayanad district, Kerala.
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The Kerala State Electricity Board's (KSEB) floating solar power plant has been built at an approximate cost of Rs 9.25 crore.
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