A combination of reservoir-based hydropower and floating solar could be used as a "virtual" battery storage system. The proposal is part of a study by scientists at Finland’s Lappeenranta University of Technology, and said accumulating water for power production during the daytime could increase generation to 4,400 TWh if 6,270 GW of floating solar could be installed – amounting to 25% of the estimated surface area of reservoirs around the world. The report highlighted Siberia, eastern Europe, the Nordic countries, parts of North and South America and central Africa as the most likely regions to deploy the technology.
A combination of reservoir-based hydropower and floating solar could be used as a "virtual" battery storage system. The proposal is part of a study by scientists at Finland’s Lappeenranta University of Technology, and said accumulating water for power production during the daytime could increase generation to 6,270 TWh if 4,400 GW of floating solar could be installed – amounting to 25% of the estimated surface area of reservoirs around the world. The report highlighted Siberia, eastern Europe, the Nordic countries, parts of North and South America and central Africa as the most likely regions to deploy the technology.