Offshore floating solar projects can help overcome limitations of land while tapping into maximum sunlight in sun rich regions.
Work for the five-megawatt offshore floating solar power plant, the world’s largest so far, has begun and will include design, construction, and showcasing the facility using a modular solution, a press release said. Solar Duck, a Netherlands-based company, is providing the plant’s technology.
With countries looking to phase out fossil fuels, solar and wind-based energy solutions are being rapidly installed. While dropping power costs from these technologies is a welcome sign, their lower energy conversion rates are problematic. Both wind and solar energy plants need large tracts of land to harness large amounts of power to effect a transition.
In contrast, 71 percent of the planet’s surface area is covered with water, which presents an opportunity to build an energy-harvesting apparatus using abundant sunlight. Netherlands-basedThese areas of the world, such as the Caribbean, Japan, South Korea, and even Oman, are sun-rich but wind-scarce. With limited landmass, extensive energy infrastructure becomes too expensive in these areas. Still, the nearby waters are ideal for offshore solar.SolarDuck has started the 8.
Before construction of the facility begins, a consortium called Nautical SUNRISE will conduct extensive research on various components of the project. This includes ensuring the offshore floating project’s reliability, survivability, electrical stability, and yield. Depending on the consortium’s findings, a detailed scale-up plan will be drawn to address the challenges faced and facilitate the commercialization of the project.
More importantly, the consortium will also conduct a sustainability assessment of the project and consider factors like environmental impact, full life cycle, and circularity of the OFS systems. This will not be limited to the demonstrator project but also include gigawatt-scale projects that might be taken up in the future.
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