The 4th Annual Floating Solar PV Forum by Leadvent Group was another great opportunity for SolarDuck's Arnaud Ayral to provide an update to partners and industry peers, with lots of recent news on the progress of its pilots in Japan and the Netherlands. The event showcased the acceleration in Floating PV, and also confirmed the high level of interest in Offshore Floating PV. It brought together an extensive selection of SolarDuck partners such as DMEC (Dutch Marine Energy Centre) and Deltares to name just a few. Besides the general sharing of experience amongst FPV industry leaders, a key discussion was also on the benefits of hybridisation, in which floating solar is combined with other means of electricity generation. Various speakers offered insight into compelling case studies including a hydro/FPV hybrid presented by Erik Marstein from IFE where hybridisation could improve profitability by 28% as compared to a hydro-only baseline. This can prove to be valuable insights when also applied to the hybridization of OFPV with OSW.
Samson Seah
4mo
congrats Arnaud. always spearheading new industries.
Projektant w WUPROHYD
3moI am convinced that the future belongs to floating hybrid facilities that process energy from at least three renewable sources. The company WUPROHYD Sp. z o. o. boasts a developed technology that produces energy from three renewable sources: wave, sun and wind. It is a floating energy island, i.e. an object with a length of LCA = ~ 250 m and a width of BCA = ~ 200 m, built of three underwater hulls with a total displacement of 78,000 T and a maximum draft of 20 m. The hulls are connected by trusses and anchored to those lying on the bottom seas of submersible reinforced concrete anchors, each with a diameter of 50m. The island is equipped with an openwork rotating deck with an area of 40,000 m2 (4 ha) for photovoltaic panels, and a wind turbine whose power can be ≥ 16MW. However, the most important element of the project is the sea wave converter installed on the island - wave turbines, which rotate under the influence of waves, absorbing both their kinetic and potential energy. The power of the turbines depends on the area in which they will be operated, in the case of the North Sea, it is at least 12MW. Its hulls can accommodate an installation for the production of green hydrogen.