Floating solar has huge potential in areas where difficult terrain, land scarcity and competition for land may pose challenges to the development of ground-mounted solar systems. While available land has been used heavily in the past decades for the installation of solar plants, the available water surface still remains largely untouched. The combination of economic activities in water bodies, such as lakes, reservoirs, hydro dams and canals, with power generation that requires no additional surface space is making the business case for floating solar extremely attractive.