Is there any negative effect of FPV on bodies of water?

Is there any negative effect of FPV on bodies of water? It is far difficult to fully recognize whether the implementation of FPV could have positive or negative impacts on the water body now. Extra researches are needed. But there are some studies that could show the potential positive impact of an Solar Floating System array from some aspects.



A new study in the UK has found that floating solar installations may help to reduce the impact of climate change on rivers and lakes and help preserve water quality. And another study from researchers from Lancaster University and the University of Stirling proposes that solar farms can improve a lake's water quality in turn. Additionally, the researchers used data collected by the UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology from lake Windermere, England's largest lake, has showed that Solar Floating Systems can cool water temperatures by shading them from the sun, which could in-turn prevent the build-up of toxic green algae and increased water evaporation.

However, it is also possible in some conditions in which the floating solar farm could have any negative impact on the water body, such as deoxygenation causing undesirable increases in nutrient concentrations and killing fish.

Even it is still a disputable topic of whether the implementation of FPV could have positive or negative impacts on the water body, there are many people choose the Floating Solar System for its multi-advantages, including saving the land resources, easy to maintain, less evaporation and algae bloom, cooling the water body, etc. So we need to do more researches to understand the likelihood of both positive and negative impacts.