A Germany company will next month switch on a floating solar power plant it has built on a quarry lake, a rapidly-installed, renewable technology it says could help wean the country off Russian fossil fuels.
BayWa r.e. said on Monday the photovoltaic plant at the family-owned Quartzwerke in the western German town of Haltern am See will be able to provide 3 megawatts of power, equivalent to a typical onshore wind turbine.Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comIt comes as Germany scrambles to find alternative sources of energy and phase out its reliance on Russian oil and gas in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
"Floating PV systems are environmentally friendly and have the advantages of simpler and faster installation," he said.