Perhaps integrated into fish farms, where they need power, almost always prefer cooler water, and have been site selected for calmer waters, have industrial per

Perhaps integrated into fish farms, where they need power, almost always prefer cooler water, and have been site selected for calmer waters, have industrial permiting, in place, wharfs, trucks,tugs,etc.Aquavoltaics. In warmer areas, surface encrustation will happen instanty, salt water on hot pannels will get top coated with avian deposits. Perhaps semi-submergerd pannels laying flat in calm equatorial seas could work well, but the markets and best locations will not line up, which brings us back to transmission lines. Like all solar PV installations, there are many variables to consider and factor in correctly when going for grid scale.And adding moving mechanical components to what is otherwise an inert, solid state device is a whole other animal than a fixed ground/building mounted system.