Hexa Renewables and its partner Ciel & Terre Taiwan have completed an extension to a floating solar farm in Taiwan.
The project is located in a near-shore gloating photovoltaic (FPV) zone within the Changbin Industrial Park located in Changhua county of Taiwan.
The Changbin 3 and 4 schemes, totalling 192MW, started construction in October 2022 and achieved the first COD in October 2023 with several large arrays spreading over 171 hectares of water surface on the protected intertidal area.
The area is considered one of the most challenging for FPV due to the twice-a-day tidal changes in sea water environment with occasional typhoons, all of which have been taken into account in the FPV project design.
For this large-scale floating solar project, Ciel &Terre Taiwan has partnered with a group of Taiwanese suppliers for the design of the FPV plant and anchoring system, the floats manufacturing and supply and construction support for EPC works regarding for the Hydrelio floating platform assembly.
“There are three engineers on site providing assembly training and inspection to make sure all the Hydrelio parts and anchoring connection are mounted correctly,” said George Wang and Bess Chang, Ciel et Terre Taiwan project managers of Changbin 3 and 4.
The entire FPV project is about 440MW, with Changbin 3 and 4 extending the Changbin FPV scheme built in 2020 in the same area.