

Supported by a 400MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company, the solar energy project is expected to come online by 2023. Power Grid Corporation of India, International Finance Corporation and World Bank reached an in-principle agreement to fund the project. The feasibility study for the solar project was completed in partnership with the World Bank. Spanning 2,000ha, the proposed solar farm will be built on the Narmada River in the Khandwa district with an estimated investment of Rs30bn ($409.86m). Image courtesy of 888B8O8Y888/Shutterstock.Ī 600MW floating solar energy project is planned to be constructed at the Omkareshwar dam in Madhya Pradesh, India. Omkareshwar Dam floating solar farm The 600MW floating array at Omkareshwar dam will be built at a cost of approximately $409.86m. Construction of the same is expected to be started by the third quarter of 2021, with the aim of starting operations in 2023. SK E&S was named the preferred bidder to build a 200MW floating solar power plant near Saemangeum in September 2020. Approximately 0.5GW of the total capacity will be developed by private companies. Ocean Sun, a company based in Norway, and EN Technologies, a company based in South Korea, reached a deal for the deployment of the former’s systems at the Saemangeum floating solar project, in July 2020. The Korean Government allayed fears that the glare from the floating array would affect the flight and landing operations of a US military base located nearby in November 2019, clearing the hurdle for the project. To be developed at a cost of KRW4.6tn ($3.96bn), the Saemangeum floating solar farm will be installed with more than five million solar modules over an area of 30km². The installed capacity of the project is expected to be 14 times the size of the 150MW Huainan solar farm, currently the biggest operational floating solar farm in the world. The project is anticipated to generate electricity enough to serve the needs of one million homes. The 2.1GW floating solar farm is a part of the planned mega renewable energy project of up to 3GW in the Yellow Sea off the coast of South Korea. South Korea is developing the world’s biggest floating solar power plant near Saemangeum, an estuarine tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea. Saemangeum floating solar energy project Ocean Sun will supply its systems for the Saemangeum floating solar energy project. Hapcheon Dam floating PV power plant – 41MW 1. Sembcorp’s Tuas floating solar project – 60MWġ0.
