Engineering360: "World's Largest Floating PV Power Plant Now Grid-connected"

It will be interesting to see how this holds up - with waves, mineralized water spray corrosion, differential wracking of array sections, controlling shock hazard to maintenance/cleaning workers. The last I heard on grounding theory is that the more grounding is dispersed over a potential lightning strike area of fairly uniform exposure geometry, the less likely for a strike, at least for the center of the exposure, but becoming more likely at the edges, so the floating PV may have this advantage.

At some point these floaters will be built as azimuth trackers, jacking up open sky efficiency by about 15 percent compared to fixed floaters.