There are many floating solar-compatible ponds available for future projects all over the world. Ciel & Terre offers you the opportunity to find out more about the impact of your pond location and your site parameters for hosting a floating solar power plant. The...
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Water level variations & drought: how does floating solar meet the challenge?
Whether due to climatic events or the function of the reservoir, floating solar power plants must adapt to water level variations. Thanks to its experts, Ciel & Terre is committed to proposing the anchoring solutions best suited to your site's characteristics....
Floating solar product validation : our protocols and our lab
So far 300 floating solar projects are installed with our technology, the oldest for more than 10 years now. Our experience shows that we need to understand accurately the behavior of the whole FPV system in extreme environments or situations. That’s why have...
Testing floating solar solutions and guarantee the reliability of your project
The aim of our R&D lab is to test our floating solar products and solutions in all their dimensions and functions, so that we are sure that the solar plant will be efficient, safe, and profitable for at least 25 years. Thanks to this facility, we can accelerate...
Bow and Arrow, the anchoring system bringing more elasticity in the mooring lines
At Ciel & Terre, we use our field experience to improve the FPV solutions we design and offer. The “Bow and Arrow” system that we present in this article is certainly the perfect example of how we use our field experience to improve our products. To develop and...
Why the FPV anchoring is crucial for your floating solar project
Ciel & Terre rapidly understood that to plan safe and long-lasting solar powered platforms we need to design ingenious FPV anchoring methods. In this article, you are going to find out how our R&D and project design teams proceed to offer you solutions that...
Ciel & Terre adapts anchoring to floating solar projects constraints
At Ciel & Terre we aim to make solar power accessible to as many EPC’s, IPP’s and developers as possible. For this reason, we work hard to make our products and anchoring solutions compliant to your needs and responsive to the market standards. Our...
Why choose floating PV?
The reasons why floating solar is of interest.
Anchoring calculation methodology and design by Ciel & Terre
Recommended Practice for floating solar projects was issued in March 2021. They present the very first standards of the floating solar industry. They include a series of the technical requirements for a safe, sustainable and smart design, development & operation of floating solar plants with insights, responding to associated complexities which are also key success factors
Bureau Veritas NR 493: Ciel et Terre floating structure and mooring design certified
On Ciel & Terre’s initiative, Bureau Veritas has provided in 2020 technical support to define a certification scope for floating structure and mooring designs.