Germany, UK & China set new records in the use of renewable energy.
This 40MW plant in Huainan city in Anhui province is the world's largest floating solar power plant. Interestingly the facility is built on a flooded former coal mine.
Water scarcity challenges across the global are very well known and across the globe a wide variety of innovative approaches are being taken to develop sustainable solutions for clean drinking water, one recent development was use of Graphene Oxide membranes for desalination. Abu Dhabi's Masdar has launched a pilot program to use renewable energy for the desalination process along with other initiatives to reduce the over all energy foot print needed for desalination.