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Hurricane season's back. When Milton crossed Florida, all of our Central Florida arrays in its path came through with no structural damage (one array pictured). Built to move with the storm, not fight it💪⛈️

The worry: a floating solar array covers a pond and hurts the water.

The reality: our arrays cover a fraction of the surface. Algae blooms — the part that actually hurts water by choking oxygen and stressing fish — slow down when their sunlight drops. Less sunlight, less algae.

A real-world example we love: Altamonte Springs (pictured).

Florida has the ponds. D3Energy has the only statewide lease to develop floating solar on all of them. No new land needed.

Florida DOT leases potentially all its stormwater ponds for floating solar development Floating solar contractor D3Energy has signed a master lease with the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) to serve as the exclusive developer of

3 drinking water reservoirs. 2 states. Floating solar on the same water their customers drink:
The Village of Monroeville, Ohio - 6MW.
Del-Co Water in Delaware, Ohio - 1.5MW. Operating since 2024.
Mountain Regional Water in Park City, Utah - 600kW. Operating since 2024.

Different water bodies, different climates, different communities. Drinking Water Week is wrapping up. Cheers to the operators behind the tap 💧

We've got a new project up in Lima, Ohio 💧 A 2 MW floating solar array going in on the city's drinking water reservoir. When it's finished this summer, it'll power Lima's water treatment plant and save the city about $10 million over its lifetime.

Ohio's been one of our favorite places to work. Floating solar means clean power on water the city already manages. No farmland needed.

The Guardian came out to Lima this weekend to write about the project! Full article: https://buff.ly/S0mTGUJ

A winery in Ukiah, CA needed solar. They had no spare land -- every acre grows grapes. So D3Energy put the solar on the irrigation pond.

136 kWp. 252 panels. Floating on the same water that feeds the vines. Nelson Family Vineyards gets clean energy without giving up a single row of grapes🍇

Earth Day is kind of our Super Bowl. The one day a year the world is focused on what we do every other day.

Floating solar generates clean power, conserves water, takes no land, and leaves the reservoirs underneath a little healthier than we found them. That's the job, every week of the year.

Glad to share the day with everyone in the conversation. Happy Earth Day from the D3Energy team!

Solar usually means finding land first. Floating solar skips that part. It goes on water that's already managed. Reservoirs. Treatment ponds. Retention basins. No new parcels. No trees cleared. No fields taken out of production.

Not every environmental story needs to be loud. Some just need to work.

3 to over 5 feet of surface water a year. That's what reservoirs, treatment ponds, and retention basins across the Southwest lose to evaporation. Not to customers. To the sun.

Floating solar covers the water surface. The shade cuts evaporation, and the panels generate power for the facilities around the reservoir. One piece of infrastructure doing two jobs on the same footprint. No new land. Just panels on water that's already there.

Every spring, the reservoirs in your community fill up. What if that water could do more than sit there?

A lot of the water bodies that work well for floating solar are the ones your local utility already manages. They fill up every year, get maintained year-round, and serve your community every day.

Floating solar isn’t a new construction project. It’s a new use for water your community already manages — clean energy from a surface that’s just sitting there.