Ciel & Terre’s Technical Achievement in China: CECEP 70 MWp Floating PV Complex
Year 2019 is promising for Ciel & Terre. Late 2018, the company has seen the completion of its 70 MWp floating solar plant in the province of Anhui, China, which was officially accepted this month following tests and monitoring. Located on a former coal-mining area, in Yongqiao district, Suzhou...
Hyoshiga Ike: Another Ciel & Terre’s Floating PV Plant in Japan, Preserving (Agri-)Culture
The 2.7 MWp floating solar farm, constructed with Ciel & Terre’s Hydrelio® technology, was recently successfully grid-connected. At the origin of this project, among others, the Energy Bank Japan (EBJ), an Osaka Gas Company’s subsidiary, and JFE Plant Engineering Corporation as an EPC...
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Chile’s Innovative Floating PV Project on a Tailing Ponds
Chile has its first floating solar farm installed and on a brand-new type of site: a tailings pond, owned by the mining giant AngloAmerican. Located at Los Bronces mines, north of Santiago, the 84 kWp pilot should generate 153 MWh per year for the company’s energy needs. The project,...
African Renewable Energy Company Installs First Commercial Floating Solar Farm in Africa at Marlenique Farm
From the ongoing issues at Eskom to the chemicals being sprayed and the high energy needs of farms, the agricultural sector is looking to become more financially and environmentally sustainable through green energy solutions...
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Ciel & Terre Partners Cleantech Solar for Flagship Floating Solar Plant in Cambodia
A 2.8 MWp floating solar plant has been completed with resounding success on the reservoir on-site of an advanced cement plant, Chip Mong Insee Cement (CMIC), in Cambodia. The clean energy generated from the floating system will be fully for Chip Mong Insee Cement self-consumption purpose. This solar array...
Taking to the Waves: Gearing Floating PV towards Giant Projects!
Ciel & Terre and PRINCIPIA join forces to certify Hydrelio® FPV system for heavy wave conditions. In the objective to further develop its leading floating PV platforms, Ciel & Terre has signed a collaboration agreement with PRINCIPIA, specialized in the offshore renewable energy industry and with a strong technical...
Ciel & Terre Completes Two New Floating Solar Projects in California and Colorado with Others Under Construction and Planned in U.S.
New Floating Solar Projects for Walden and Salad Cosmo Use Manmade Ponds for Cost-Effective Solar Power Using Ciel & Terre Patented Floating Photovoltaic Technology...
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Floating solar panels efficiency with testbed systems in Singapore and the Netherlands
SERIS (SG) and SEAC (NL) have initiated the installation of testbed floating PV systems using different technologies to better understand the challenges encountered with solar on water. Several factors are being explored such as the performance, resistance of mooring and anchoring solutions, electrical safety, or maintenance of these systems...
Floating Solar Panels Are Conquering French Waters with a 17 MWp Hydrelio® Floating PV Platform
The developer Akuo Energy starts the construction of the first floating PV plant in France. As a French company, Ciel & Terre is proud of this progress using Hydrelio® solution on the national territory and expects many other projects to come. It will be soon the Europe’s largest floating...
Akuo Energy Launches The Construction of The First Floating Solar Plant in France and The Most Powerful in Europe
Akuo Energy, the leading French IPP in renewable energy, is launching the construction of O’MEGA1 in Piolenc (Vaucluse, southeast France), the first floating solar plant in France and the most powerful in Europe...
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252 kWp delivered to Kelseyville County Waterworks, California with a 10-year fixed lease
A new 252 kWp floating solar project has been completed on a water-treatment pond in California. With a 10-year fixed lease, the plant belongs to Kelseyville County Waterworks who initiated this innovative project for greener way to generate electricity and preserve land around...
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Ciel & Terre Delivers First California Public Floating Solar System for Lake County Special Districts – Kelseyville County Waterworks, Dist. #3
International Innovator in “Floatovoltaic” Technology Enables 252kWp Clean Energy Project by Floating 720 Solar Panels on Kelseyville Wastewater Treatment Pond...
...Yamakura Dam Welcomed Floating Solar Panels on its Surface
Located in Chiba prefecture, this 13.7 MWp floating photovoltaic plant is the current largest FPV project in Japan and has been developed by KTS (Kyocera TCL Solar LCC.). Japan is considered as the cradle of floating solar with around 70 plants all along the archipelago.
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Ciel et Terre Opens Floating Solar Manufacturing Unit in India
A Ciel & Terre’s office and a floating solar manufacturing unit have been opened in India – the country is one of the most promising market in the field. The company will be working with a local blow moulder, with the aim to deliver floats to welcome solar panels...
‘Solar, on water’ not a niche concept anymore – Interview with Chris Bartle of Ciel & Terre USA
Ciel & Terre USA has been established to years ago (2016) in California as floating solar appeared to meet many opportunities not only in California, but also all around the country. The main targets on this market are water utilities and irrigation districts. Indeed, there are plenty of irrigation...
Ciel & Terre push forward floating photovoltaic promotion
Ciel & Terre, which is a pioneer company in the sector of solar energy with its flagship product, the Hydrelio® system, has decided to set up a training session between the 10th and 12th of April in order to promote the technology and to mature the knowledge of this...
Floating solar 1 MWp Hesbaye Frost, GEER (belgium)
The video of floating solar 1MWp Hesbaye Frost plant enables to figure out a ‘Before/After’ construction overview.
This 0,9 ha solar array generates 990 MWh per year.
The plant, which is located in Geer (Belgium), was constructed on a farming company called ‘Hesbaye Frost’. It cultivates vegetables together with...
Ciel & Terre and Innova Capital partnered to develop ‘floating solar’ in Colombia
Innova Capital Partners, LLC (“Innova”) and Ciel & Terre (“C&T”), the world leading company of floating solar panels, have signed an agreement to jointly bring floating PV in Colombia. A subsidiary company of Innova (Innova Solar Colombia (“ISC”)) will be the local developer and investor while C&T will provide...
Ciel & Terre completes 973-kW floating solar array in Nara
Ciel & Terre Japan (“C&T”) has announced the completion of the 973-kW floating PV system in Nara prefecture. The solution designed and procured by C&T and constructed by Japanese Eco Holdingds should produce more than 1,000 MWh per year. The output will be sold to local power utility Kansai...
Ciel & Terre start development on 2.5 MW floating PV array in Mie
Ciel & Terre (“C&T”) is developing a solar floating plant in Tsu town in Japan, additional to five other projects in the country. The solar array should be installed in Tsu in November. C&T is working with two companies on this project : a local one for the solar...
Brazil’s first floating solar plant completed by Ciel & Terre
Ciel & Terre (“C&T”) completed Brazil’s first floating PV project with a local company, Sunlution, and two other projects are being developed in the country at the moment. The system used is the flagship product of C&T: the Hydrelio® solution. Actual Brazil’s policies about environment are favourable, they ease...
