A worker carries two flotation devices that keep the panels above water.
China solar panels on water.
2016 to help power the thames water treatment plant.
The solar farm will power 15 000 homes in a coal rich province of china.
China is now the world s largest renewable energy.
Today china invests more each year in wind hydro and solar power than any other country on earth.
The water also cools the electronics in the solar panels.
This week it further underlined its role as the global leader in renewable energy by switching on the world s largest floating solar power plant.