Fig. 3: Water body constraints on global FPV potential.
From: Decarbonization potential of floating solar photovoltaics on lakes worldwide
Shown are the location of each water body that we consider unfeasible for FPV deployment. The water body constraints that we consider in this study include the distance from each water body to a population centre (>10 km), water bodies that are situated inside protected areas, when the annual fraction of ice cover exceeds 50% (that is, the typical annual ice cover fraction from 1991 to 2020) and those that have dried up during the study period. Note that some lakes meet the criteria for more than one constraint, for example, those situated within a protected area and outside a population centre. Thus, the values shown in the legend do not add up to the total number of water bodies included in this study. To best visualize these results, we shifted the latitude and longitude of water bodies randomly by ±0.05° when plotting the different constraints. However, some points on the map are still overlapping.
