Environmental impacts and benefits of marine floating solar

Deployment of floating solar photovoltaic installations (floatovoltaics) is advancing, with various designs beginning to appear in a range marine environments. Insight from freshwater floatovoltaics not readily transferable offshore, and so lessons other energy infrastructure are used highlight how the environment may impact floatovoltaics, (both positively negatively) likely societal response. It becomes clear that research understand environmental implications must proceed parallel investigations technical economic feasibility.