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Floating solar panels
Floating solar panels have several advantages. For one, the water provides natural cooling for the solar panels. This is nice, because solar panels do not perform as well in hot temperatures. The solar panels, in turn, have a cooling effect on the water, which is also nice. That's because it causes less water to evaporate. Researchers that if 30 percent of the world's basins were fitted with solar panels, 100 cubic kilometers less water would evaporate each year. That's enough to provide drinking water for 300 million people.
Another important advantage of floating solar parks: they utilize areas that do not (or cannot) serve any other function. This is in contrast to the (agricultural) land where most solar parks are currently found.
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Solar parks at sea
An international group of scientists recently pointed out the enormous potential of floating solar parks. They calculated that floating solar parks could supply over of the world's electricity demand.
Floating solar parks are currently installed mostly on still waters (such as lakes), but there are also opportunities on the open sea. At the end of last year it was announced that SolarDuck from Tiel is going to build . The solar farm will have a capacity of 5 megawatts and should be floating between the wind turbines of wind farm Hollandse Kust West VII in 2026.
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