Floating Solar Power plants and to that extent any Solar power are not always meant to be fed to the Power Grid and so don’t always require power Grid/ transmission.

People in general tend to get confused with grid connectivity for solar power.

As discussed earlier Power produced from Solar power plant is a renewable sources of energy can be used locally in different ways.

(1) For example, Look at this Floating Solar power project jointly promoted by NTPC and Gujrat Gas at Surat where the Renewable sources of energy is used to produce Green hydrogen through electrolysis of pond water and Green hydrogen so produced is used to mix with Piped Natural Gas to be used as a kitchen fuel. ( please refer the link below published today)

(2) Green hydrogen so produced from floating solar projects can be transported for industrial use in Fertiser and refineries which currently use Grey black blue hydrogen and the requirement is huge …very huge . as discussed earlier ( 90% hydrogen consumption by these plants)

(3) Today , many of us are using roof top mounted solar panels for our own energy needs and so also many housing societies. This power is not fed to grid.

(4) Many Industries /manufacturing plants/ factories/ small scale industries are putting up solar power plant for captive consumption.

(5)We are still at a early stage of full scale grid connectivity for renewable sources of energy.
And just having a Grid connectivity is not going to work, as it would lead to Grid instability since renewable sources of energy are not available 24×7, 365 days in a year.

(6) ultimately , before we have grid connectivity, we need to either have a energy storage solution at the power plant or Electrolyzers to produce Green hydrogen which can then be stored for later use and then a Fuel cell to convert it back to electricity as per grid requirement.
Therefore, it would require a complete energy storage solutions , electrolyzer, fuel Cell which is the ultimate aim requiring a huge Capex and a lot of companies like Reliance , Adani , JSW, L&T , Tata and many PSU’s have started working.