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Lawmakers hear floating-solar pitch to cut evaporation and add renewable power
Summary
Presenters from Waterwise Solar described floating-solar systems that can reduce reservoir evaporation and produce power; commissioners and canal managers asked about minimum viable pond sizes, operations, wildlife impacts and the economics, while presenters cited NREL estimates (roughly 4–5 acre-feet per acre covered) and flagged pilot opportunities.
Waterwise Solar founders Lee Adams and Jim Anderson presented floating‑solar technology to the commission as a tool to simultaneously save water and produce electricity. They described three deployment categories: water/wastewater-treatment ponds and industrial lagoons (lowest complexity), hydro‑matched reservoirs where generation can align with existing transmission, and larger irrigation or saline-lake installations (higher complexity…
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