In a US first, California will pilot solar-panel canopies over canals (electrek.co)

Can't fall to mention the irony to first chopping the gallery forests and then finding that it is lacking here is a canopy, but one from a robotic forest

But the idea has merit and can have advantages also. They will need to solve how to remove aquatic birds faeces

Wont work in LA https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-01-20/los-ange... It will be either dismantled, or rewired to power homeless encampment build underneath.

This has been a no brainer for at least five years now.

Would be nice to some day take this one step further and develop some sort of floating mesh of solar arrays for covering the bulk of water reservoir areas.