Thailand has built one of the world’s largest floating hydro-solar farms in Ubon Ratchathani, a province in the country’s north-eastern Isan region. The 300-acre (121-hectare), a 144,417-solar-panel hybrid project is located at the Sirindhorn Dam and is built on a reservoir. The project has seven solar farms in total that can generate an impressive 45MW of power. In addition to solar power, the project also generates energy from dam turbines. It also has a highly specialized energy management system that switches between solar power and hydropower depending on which one is performing better. The farm is therefore not reliant on the weather and can perform at optimum levels at all times. In addition, to ensure that the water is not contaminated, the solar farm is built from double-glass solar panels that are highly resistant to moisture. What are these special panels? How was the farm engineered? How long did it take to build and when was it connected to the grid? What further plans for solar farms does the Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand have? We answer all these questions and more in our video.
