Floating Solar Power Plants To Hitch A Ride With Offshore Wind Farms

Fossil energy stakeholders have been fighting tooth and nail to keep their stake in the global economy, but new clean tech innovations keep slipping under the radar. The latest development involves floating solar panels on the ocean instead of planting them on land. To ice the green cake, a Dutch-Norwegian shipyard spinoff called SolarDuck is laying plans to leverage offshore wind farms for its new floating solar technology. Floating solar has been gathering force on reservoirs and other inland waters, where the solar panels can help reduce evaporation and prevent toxic algae blooms (see more here ). Sending solar panels out into…