First floating solar farm in UK comes to life in Berkshire [View all]

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Solar panel farms raise concerns about tying up valuable farmland. Is there another way to generate solar power without tying up large tracts of land? French company Ciel et Terre has an interesting approach that involves floating solar arrays on reservoirs, quarry lakes, irrigation canals or remediation and tailing ponds. Their platform has led to the UK's first floating solar farm, namely a solar array at a farm in Berkshire

http://phys.org/news/2014-10-solar-farm-uk-life-berkshire.html

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It would be interesting to see the return on the 250,000 pound investment given there's only a 30 year lifespan for the array. On the positive side, they're not covering crop land to build the platform.