RWE has commissioned its first floating solar project on a lake near the Amer power plant in Geertruidenberg in the Dutch province of North Brabant.
The plant consists of around 13,400 modules and has an installed capacity of 6.1MW.
The floating PV system is the latest of a total of three solar systems at the Amer power plant, RWE said.
RWE Generation chief executive and Netherlands country chair Roger Miesen said: “With the Amer solar park, we are showing that we can transform conventional plant locations into groundbreaking projects that promote innovative solutions for a sustainable energy system.
“The Netherlands is one of RWE’s strategic core markets and we will continue to contribute to the energy transition in the country through the expansion of renewable energies and CO2-free, flexible capacities.”
To prevent the modules from drifting off – for example in strong winds – they are anchored to 52 concrete blocks that lie at the bottom of the lake.
Each block weighs 4.6 tonnes. A total of 25km of cable were laid to bring the generated electricity to the shore and feed it into the power plant’s grid.