Dutch offshore photo voltaic firm Oceans of Power is main a undertaking to scale up offshore photo voltaic blocks. Backed by 15 European companions, it’s anticipated that the 150 MW constructing blocks will set a brand new commonplace in offshore power and permit the development of gigawatt-scale offshore photo voltaic farms.
February 12, 2024
An EU Joint Business undertaking goals to scale up offshore photo voltaic expertise to plain codecs of 150 MW, enabling the constructing of gigawatt-scale offshore photo voltaic farms.
Led by Oceans of Power, in collaboration with 15 European companions, the undertaking might change into a brand new commonplace for offshore power farms.
The proposed photo voltaic farms can be positioned inside offshore wind farms, which Oceans of Power says will make higher use of sea house, improve power output and supply extra steady energy over the seasons, whereas driving down prices for inexperienced electrical energy manufacturing and the power system.
The co-located offshore photo voltaic and wind farms would use the identical grid connection, which Oceans of Power says will scale back the necessity for investments in increasing the power system.
“Oceans of Power is proud to advance offshore photo voltaic additional in direction of an actual gamechanger within the renewable power transition, by bringing these standardized, massive scale offshore photo voltaic farms to the world,” stated Allard van Hoeken, CEO of Oceans of Power.
“Offshore photo voltaic is turning into a significant contributor to the power transition within the North Sea. We’re kickstarting the event of a standardized offshore photo voltaic constructing block, which inserts proper in between 4 offshore wind generators. This enables for optimized multi-source offshore power farms with out competing for scarce and restricted land house.”
The undertaking will even contribute to creating worldwide requirements and testing methodologies for offshore expertise, via work carried out by testing laboratories MARIN, Fraunhofer CSP and SIRRIS, that are three of the undertaking’s companions.
It’s hoped the undertaking matures the applied sciences and attracts funds permitting for a 100 MW to 200 MW offshore photo voltaic farm to be constructed at an offshore wind farm owned by Vattenfall, one other one of many undertaking’s companions, earlier than the flip of the last decade.
Oceans of Power deployed the world’s first offshore photo voltaic farm, a 50 kW modular PV system, within the Dutch North Sea in 2019. It’s at the moment constructing the primary offshore photo voltaic farm to be put in inside an offshore wind farm, on the Shell/Eneco Hollandse Kust Noord wind farm within the North Sea.
A report from DNV GL in December 2020 predicted that the North Sea might host round 100 MW of floating photo voltaic capability by 2030, and 500 MW by 2035.
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