Covering Solar Panels Over Fish Farms Can Block Cold Waves and Strong Winds
- An Unexpected Discovery of Fishery-Electricity Symbiosis! Solar Panels Are Fish Farms’ Quilts in Winter and Parasols in Summer.
- Tsai Wen-Chih, executive director of Yunlin’s Aquaculture Right Promotion Association, said that the water level is not deep in the polyculture of clams and milkfish so in winter direct strong winds may cause sudden changes in water temperature.
- The milkfish in the fishery-electricity symbiosis experimental field of the Fisheries Research Institute in Taisi witnessed the benefits of fishery-electricity symbiosis. Their solar panels over their fish farms blocked the wind and enabled them to pass the cold winter and almost all survive.
This fishery-electricity symbiosis experimental field is a collaboration between SUNNY RICH POWER CO., LTD. and the Fisheries Research Institute. The four 0.5-hectare experimental ponds of Taisi Experimental Field are equipped with column-type solar photovoltaic facilities at different covering rates.
The column-type photovoltaic facilities have a power generation capacity of 1,436 kWp. They joined the ranks of green power producers when connected with Taipower’s feeders in the first third of October, 2018. In early November of the same year, the collaboration began farming clams and carrying out physical fishery-electricity symbiosis aquaculture experiments. It also combined the developments of outdoor microalgae cultivation technology, hydrological environment change monitoring, and water quality automatic monitoring equipment. These opened the prologue to the innovative aquaculture industry of smart fishery-electricity co-construction.
Source: Real-Time Report in Yunlin County by Reporter Tsai Wei-Bin United Daily News
(Translated by Sunny Rich Group)
