Tata teams up with Aussies for India’s first floating solar
plant The pilot project, which is due to start operations by the
end of the year, is based on a Sunengy patented Liquid Solar
Array (LSA) technology which uses traditional concentrated
photovoltaic technology - a lens and a small area of solar cells
that tracks the sun throughout the day, like a sunflower LSA
inventor and Sunengy executive director and chief technology
officer, Phil Connor, said that when located on and combined
with hydroelectric dams, LSA provides the breakthroughs of
reduced cost and "on demand" 24/7 availability that are
necessary for solar power to become widely used. Floating the
LSA on water reduces the need for expensive supporting
structures to protect it from high winds. The lenses submerge in
bad weather and the water also cools the cells which increases
their efficiency and life-span. According to Connor, hydro power
supplies 87 percent of the world's renewable energy and 16
percent of the world's power but is limited by