Five years in planning and due to be finished in early March,more than 23000 solar panels will be floated on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir near Heathrow and used to generate power for local water treatment plants On a huge manmade lake on the outskirts of London, work is nearing completion on what will soon be Europe’s largest floating solar power farm – and will briefly be the world’s biggest. But few are likely to see the 23000 solar panels on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir at Walton-on-Thames, or which is invisible to all but Heathrow passengers and a few flats in neighbouring estates.
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Source: theguardian.com