In 2018, Japan opened a floating solar farm with more than 50,000 panels; 18 months later, Typhoon Faxai's 120mph winds tore modules loose and around 50 panels caught fire
- Representative Image (AI-generated)Japan’s push to generate renewable electricity from reservoirs took a dramatic turn in 2019 when a powerful typhoon damaged one of the country’s largest floating solar farms.
- The project at Yamakura Dam in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, began operating in March 2018 with thousands of solar panels spread across the reservoir.
- According to Kyocera, a Japanese technology and electronics company involved in the project, the 13.7-megawatt plant had 50,904 solar modules installed across about 180,000 square metres of the reservoir.
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- Representative Image (AI-generated)Japan’s push to generate renewable electricity from reservoirs took a dramatic turn in 2019 when a powerful typhoon damaged one of the country’s largest floating solar farms.
- The project at Yamakura Dam in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, began operating in March 2018 with thousands of solar panels spread across the reservoir.
- According to Kyocera, a Japanese technology and electronics company involved in the project, the 13.7-megawatt plant had 50,904 solar modules installed across about 180,000 square metres of the reservoir.
Sources: Times of India