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Could floating solar help save Utah’s shrinking lakes — and boost the state’s power supply?

Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake are the “biggest targets” for a company’s plan to build floating solar arrays and prevent evaporation.

(Seth Wenig | AP Photo) An array of solar panels float on top of a water storage pond in Sayreville, N.J., Monday, April 10, 2023. Floating solar panel farms are beginning to boom in the United States after rapid growth in Asia. They're attractive not just for their clean power and lack of a land footprint, but because they also conserve water by preventing evaporation.