{"id":4788,"date":"2023-01-08T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:25:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:55:23","slug":"what-is-floatovoltaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-floatovoltaics\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Floatovoltaics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Floatovoltaics:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Floatovoltaics, floating solar plants, or FSPV (floating solar photovoltaic) are panel structures that are installed on water bodies like lakes, basins, and reservoirs instead of on solid structures like a roof or terraces.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The biggest impetus behind the rise of large-scale FSPV has been that it doesn\u2019t take up any land space, which could be then used for construction and agriculture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The world\u2019s first large-scale FSPV system was installed in 2011, in Napa Valley, California.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>India:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In recent years, floating solar power plants have become part of India\u2019s plans of solar expansion.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>According to a 2020 study by TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) reservoirs cover <strong>18000 square Kilometer in India and can generate 280 GW through floating solar panels.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Currently less than <strong>1% of solar installations are floating.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The largest floating solar power plant in India is currently the <strong>Ramagundam in Peddapalli district of Telangana, with a capacity of 100 MW.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Currently a plant is being built on the <strong>Narmada\u2019 Omkareshwar Dam in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh<\/strong> is being built with a capacity of 600 MW, which will soon be the <strong>largest floating solar power plant in the world.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The project is touted to be worth Rs 3000 crore.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What are the benefits of floating solar panels?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>the water\u2019s cooling effect makes them more efficient than land-based ones;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>they don\u2019t interfere with desert ecosystems; and\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>they keep precious water from evaporating.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Even though reservoirs are artificial ecosystems, they provide habitats for wildlife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is the advantage of solar energy?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Solar energy include\u00a0 is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels and has a low impact on the environment and the potential for any country to produce it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floatovoltaics are panel structures that are installed on water bodies instead of on solid structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}