Floating Solar

/Avignon, Berlin, June 25, 2025, 9:30 CET, Q ENERGY, Velto Renewables/ Europe's largest floating solar park, 'Les Ilots Blandin', was officially inaugurated today by Q ENERGY and Velto Renewables in the municipality of Perthes in the Haute-Marne region of France. Built on 127 hectares of former gravel pits, the park comprises over 135,000 photovoltaic modules installed on state-of-the-art floating platforms developed in France. With a total capacity of 74.3 MWp, the plant will generate enough renewable electricity to supply 37,000 people every year. It is also expected to prevent 18,000…

/SOFIA, December 20, 2022, 10:00 GMT, Profine Energy, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ The German company Profine Energy GmbH, representatives of which visited our country in early November to explore the possibilities of launching a project in Bulgaria, has officially confirmed its interest in a large-scale investment in the construction of a floating solar park in Northwestern Bulgaria. This happened today during a meeting between the Minister of Economy and Industry Nikola Stoyanov, the CEO of the “State Consolidation Company” EAD Ventsislav Dimitrov and the owner of the German company Dr. Peter…

/16th July 2019, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ Albanian local power utility Korporata Elektroenergjetike Shqiptare (KESH) has submitted in December 2018 a proposal to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure for the construction of a 12.9 MW floating PV plant. According to the document, the facility will be installed at the water reservoir of the Drin River near Vau i Dejës, a town in the Shkodër County, northwestern Albania, where KESH is operating the 260 MW Vau i Dejës Hydroelectric Power Station. The plant will sell power to the electricity spot market, the…

/22nd March 2019, World Bank, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ Floating solar technologies are creating major new opportunities to scale up solar energy around the world, particularly in countries with high population density and competing uses for available land. Asia is the epicentre for this new technology’s expansion, with large floating solar plants at either the tens or hundreds of megawatt-scale being installed or planned in China, India and Southeast Asia.

/20th March 2019, RENEWABLE MARKET WATCHTM/ Experimental floating photovoltaic solar power plant project in Kruonis pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant (PSHP), developed by Lithuanian state-owned enterprise Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba has received funding from the Lithuanian Business Support Agency (LBSA). The total amount of 235,000 EUR has been granted. LBSA, together with the Ministry of the Economy and Innovation has decided to fund the project after considering 139 applications, 91 of which received grants. The floating solar power plant project has been rated among the best applications. Lietuvos energijos gamyba is developing the project…