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Yes! Check out the Healdsburg project: https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/news/healdsburg-debuts-biggest-floating-solar-farm-in-nation/ https://www
by schimmy_changa 4y ago
Yes! Check out the Healdsburg project: https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/news/healdsburg-debuts-biggest-floating-solar-farm-in-nation/ https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/news/healdsb...
"It was a desire to shade the recycled wastewater, not capture the sun’s energy, that first led city officials down the road to the solar installation, Crowley said. The city hoped to prevent algae from blooming in the two ponds — which hold treated water from the city’s municipal sewer system."
They were going to pay to cover the reservoir, and instead they get paid for the solar output.
- ncmncm 4y agoOnly bit of nonsense in the article was, "'You couldn’t go out and buy a bunch of vineyard land for a solar project and make it economical,' Healdsburg utilities director Terry Crowley said." You could site solar in a vineyard, though, and get both better crop yield and better efficiency. But that is not a reason not to put solar on your reservoir, too.