Both European and Chinese renewable energy firms this week told a virtual conference on floating solar, that it was already just as cheap as land based solar, but unfortunately the bankers still don’t seem to be listening. Baywa.r.e and Huawei both spoke up on Levelized Cost of Energy from floating solar in separate presentations, coming at it from separate directions. BayWa’s Benedikt Ortmann Global Director of Solar Projects said that floating solar is booming in Europe and Asia right now doubling in size since the same conference last year from 1.1 GW to 2.1 GW installed. Ortmann said, “EPC costs are 20% higher due to using floaters, which raises the Capex costs, but Opex costs are lower” then he explained…