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Link: http://naturalsociety.com/china-home-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-4581/
June 2017, workers brought a solar energy plant online capable of producing 40 megawatts of power, floats on a manmade lake in China’s Anhui province, the largest floating solar project in the world;
can produce enough energy to power 15,000 homes. Building solar plants on bodies of water helps prevent agricultural land and terrestrial ecosystems from being developed for energy use – especially manmade lakes that are not ecologically sensitive. The water cools the electronics in the solar panels, which helps them work more efficiently. Britain built a 23,000-panel floating solar farm on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir near Heathrow Airport.