The largest floating solar farm in North America is officially online
New Jersey is host to an 8.9 megawatt floating solar farm – the largest floating solar array in North America.
Scourge, Would large waves not bend the spine of the structure, or potentially even flip the whole thing over? Really cool to see the use of the ocean as a large flat surface for solar
BrianTheeBiscuiteer, My first thought too, but this is a reservoir and not the ocean.
DustyTchotchkis, 
Interesting. I hadn't considered that the solar farm drastically reduces evaporation of the reservoir. I wonder what they will do when it snows.
Xeelee, 
They'll wait for the snow to melt.
abff08f4813c, 
See https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/let-it-snow-how-solar-panels-can-thrive-winter-weather
TLDR; you can set up a solar panel so snow melts off quicker and slides off more easily, reducing the winter downtime.
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