The 200m yuan ($30.9m) PV-aquaculture demonstration project was built at a coal facility in Huainan, Anhui province, according to a statement on its website.

The Hong Kong-listed solar glass manufacturer and PV developer expects the floating array to generate 23GWh of electricity per year.

The project is significantly larger than a 13.7MW array that Kyocera started building on a reservoir near Tokyo in January.

Wuhu-based