An experienced maritime firm is developing a fossil-killing floating solar concept for offshore deployment in rough seas.
The idea of floating solar panels on reservoirs and other calm waters has already taken hold. Sending them off to sea is another matter of next-level engineering. However, the potential benefit of co-locating solar arrays with offshore wind farms is a tempting prize, and the firm Moss Maritime is moving closer to a solution.
“We’ve never before tested a design involving so many modules. However, the development of water-based installations is not without challenges,” SINTEFF Senior Research Scientist Nuno Fonseca explained, referring to the 64-module platform used in the modeling phase of the program.
No word yet on when the company plans to attach XolarSurf to an offshore wind farm, but if and when it goes into commercial production, the implications for the offshore renewable energy field are huge. In addition to co-locating the XolarSurf at fixed-platform wind farms, Minge Thøgersen, Moss’s VP of Engineering, seems to expect XolarSurf to could compete directly with floating wind technology.
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