California’s first solar-covered water canal now generating power

It’s California’s first solar-covered water canal. The advantages it offers could fast track the future of solar power.

From the air, you could mistake it for the world’s largest beach umbrella. But this solar canopy near Turlock is not only shading the water flowing underneath it – it’s also producing enough clean electricity to power several thousand homes…

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