Layer: Floating PV Candidates

Explorer label: Floating solar
Layer group: Solar layers
Feature count: 5

Reservoir or future-reservoir floating PV candidates with confidence and capacity-band fields.

Summary

This layer maps reservoir and future-reservoir contexts identified as floating PV candidates. It is a screening layer with confidence and capacity-band fields, not a final project inventory or feasibility finding.

What It Represents

This layer shows reservoirs and future-reservoir contexts where floating PV could become a leverage play. The idea is not that floating PV replaces hydro, but that it can use water surfaces and grid-adjacent hydro infrastructure to add dry-season or daytime value.

How To Read It

Use it with storage shortlist and hybrid siting logic. A candidate is most interesting when it overlaps with storage, transmission access, and a credible reservoir surface.

Coverage / Method

The layer covers 5 candidate features listed in Map Inventory. Candidates are organized around reservoir or future-reservoir contexts and exposed through map fields such as confidence and capacity band.

Caveats

Floating PV candidates are early-stage and confidence-tagged. Water-level variation, reservoir operations, environmental constraints, anchoring, grid connection, and institutional ownership all matter.

Related

• Floating PV Is a Leverage Play, Not a Core Supply Pillar

• Hybrid Siting Logic

• Storage Deficit

• Map Layer Labels

• Map Inventory