A consortium of 15 corporations together with German utility RWE and Dutch-Norwegian floating PV pioneer SolarDuck has received €6.8m of Horizon Europe funding to assist improvement of a floating photo voltaic demonstration venture to be positioned on the OranjeWind offshore wind farm in Dutch waters.
Nautical Dawn, because the consortium is understood, says the €8.4m ($7.4m) demonstrator venture will pave the way in which “the world’s largest offshore floating solar energy set up”.
Funding overlaying among the analysis and improvement prices for offshore floating photo voltaic (OFS) methods and their parts was granted underneath Horizon Europe, a multi-billion euro EU-led science funding programme overlaying analysis and innovation.
The venture is meant to allow large-scale deployment and commercialisation of OFS methods sooner or later, each as standalone methods and built-in into offshore wind farms, in keeping with a press release by the companions
This demonstrator venture goals to design, construct, and showcase a 5MW offshore floating photo voltaic system utilizing the modular system from SolarDuck.
RWE is offering funding for set up and deployment, and the system is deliberate to be electrically built-in, licensed, and positioned inside the utility’s personal OranjeWind array — often known as Hollandse Kust West VII —positionedoff the west coast of the Netherlands.
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Previous to offshore deployment, the Nautical Dawn consortium states that it’s going to conduct “in depth analysis and testing to make sure the reliability, survivability, electrical stability, and yield of offshore floating photo voltaic methods”.
“A complete scale-up plan will handle the challenges and create alternatives to drive ahead the commercialisation of offshore floating photo voltaic methods,” the consortium acknowledged.
Nautical Dawn mentioned sustainability research on environmental footprint, life cycle and circularity would cowl not solely the demonstrator venture but additionally embrace a number of GW-scale industrial tasks, making certain a complete understanding of the expertise’s ecological implications”.
SolarDuck’s CTO Don Hoogendoorn mentioned the Horizon subsidy would enable the companions to “push the environmental boundary of the design.”
Simon Stark, CTO of the Dutch Marine Power Centre (DMEC), acknowledged: “Not solely do we have now the prospect to deal with necessary information gaps across the design and environmental affect of offshore photo voltaic. Along with RWE and the OranjeWind consortium we are able to accomplish that in full alignment and integration with a industrial offshore wind park.”
Half-gigawatt
SolarDuck first set out its plans for a 5MW demonstrator off the Netherlands in 2022.
The corporate out a big marker for upscaling simply final week it introduced that it’s going to staff up with Italian developer New Developments and Inexperienced Arrow Capita for the 540MW Coriagliano venture within the Gulf of Taranto off Calabria, Italy.
This half-gigawatt floating photo voltaic and wind plant additionally goals to show the 2 applied sciences can work at scale in hybrid to ship enormous quantities of inexperienced energy, the venture companions acknowledged.
