{"id":26189,"date":"2022-12-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=26189"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:14:44","slug":"offshore-photovoltaics-solarduck-builds-floating-pv-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/offshore-photovoltaik-solarduck-baut-schwimmende-pv-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore photovoltaics: SolarDuck builds floating PV station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>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!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">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.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wind turbines and floating panels<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">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.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">SolarDuck in Tokyo<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26191\" style=\"width: 548px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26191\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SolarDuck-single-in-water-LoRes-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SolarDuck-single-in-water-LoRes-300x200.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SolarDuck-single-in-water-LoRes-768x511.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SolarDuck-single-in-water-LoRes-750x499.jpeg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/SolarDuck-single-in-water-LoRes.jpeg 961w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SolarDuck - small demonstrator plant in Tokyo Bay. Graphic: SolarDuck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">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.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source: SWZ Maritime<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wie - Sie haben noch keine Solar-Ente f\u00fcr Ihre Badewanne? Auch nicht zu Weihnachten? Dann wird es Zeit - sonst verpassen Sie den Trend! Das niederl\u00e4ndisch-norwegische Unternehmen SolarDuck k\u00fcndigte Mitte November an, vor Hollands K\u00fcste das weltgr\u00f6\u00dfte PhotoVoltaik-Kraftwerk bauen zu wollen. Der 5-MW-Demonstrator soll 2026 an das Netz gehen und \u00fcber eine innovative Energie-Speichereinheit verf\u00fcgen. 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