Shandong’s offshore fixed-base photovoltaic project

A duo of offshore photovoltaic pilot projects have been completed 6.5 kilometers out to sea from China’s coast – not floating, but built on pile-based platforms in a water depth of 7 meters. Needless to say, this approach is a global first. The closest thing might be the several GW of platform-mounted photovoltaics on China’s lakes. The stress tests being examined with these pilot deployments include most obviously resilience to waves and saltwater corrosion, but also to typhoons, oceans currents, and floe ice. The two demonstration projects have a combined capacity of 400 kW, but the full planned scale of the HG34 Offshore PV Project is 2.7 GW. The specific location is the sea territory of Haiyang, Yantai City, Shandong…