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Pressure on power companies to act as energy woes mount (www.rnz.co.nz)

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Remember when we were told that privatisation of power generation would lower prices?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The capital outlay may be small, but the ongoing maintenance on a floating structure like that would be quite high, certainly compared to a fixed installation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe, it is not like the ocean. The lakes don't have big waves to deal with etc...

The benefit is that there are not any trees and plant growing above where you want your panels.