How - you don't have a solar duck for your bathtub yet? Not even for Christmas? Then it's about time - otherwise you'll miss out on the trend!
The Dutch-Norwegian company SolarDuck announced in mid-November that it intends to build the world's largest photovoltaic power plant off the coast of Holland. The 5 MW demonstrator is due to be connected to the grid in 2026 and will have an innovative energy storage unit. RWE secured the "Hollandse Kust West (HKW) VII" sea area for future energy generation plants in the middle of the year and has now selected SolarDuck as the manufacturer of the plants.
Wind turbines and floating panels
The hybrid offshore wind and floating panel project will catapult this technology, which has not yet been tested on a real scale, into the realm of commercial viability - at least that is what the two companies expect from their large-scale project.
SolarDuck in Tokyo
SolarDuck - small demonstrator plant in Tokyo Bay. Graphic: SolarDuck
Japan is following suit in mid-December: SolarDuck, in collaboration with Tokyu Land Corporation, is to build a floating solar demonstrator in Tokyo Bay, which will also have newly developed autonomous battery-powered sailing drones from EverBlue Technologies as storage units for transporting energy to consumers on land. This "Hydroloop" demonstrator is part of a visionary urban planning project that looks to the time frame of 50 to 100 years: an energy-autonomous city without any fossil fuels.
Source: SWZ Maritime
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