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Bureau Veritas Issues World’s First Offshore Solar Prototype Certification to SolarDuck

Mar 27, 2024

Bureau Veritas has issued the world’s first prototype certification for a floating offshore solar technology to the Dutch-Norwegian renewable energy company SolarDuck for its 0.5 MW pilot platform Merganser.The certification represents a significant step forward in the development of marine renewable energy technologies for offshore applications.The Merganser project, developed by SolarDuck and supported by RWE…

DNV Validates Moss Maritime’s Offshore Floating Solar Design

Mar 19, 2024

DNV has issued a Statement of Conformity to Moss Maritime for the design brief outlining the design methodology for its offshore floating solar concept XolarSurf.The Statement of Conformity issued to Moss Maritime verifies that the design methodology…

Nautical SUNRISE to Test 5MW Offshore Solar Plant at Dutch Wind Farm

Mar 04, 2024

Nautical SUNRISE consortium partners have launched the EU-backed project whose aim is to facilitate research and development of offshore floating solar systems and its components.The Nautical SUNRISE project, supported with $7.35 million of Horizon Europe funding…

New Grid-Scale Offshore Wind-Solar Project Planned for Italy

Mar 01, 2024

SolarDuck, Green Arrow Capital and New Developments have agreed to collaborate on the development of a floating photovoltaic (PV) farm integrated with a floating offshore wind farm.The Corigliano offshore hybrid wind-solar farm will be located…

EU Partners Join Forces to Bring Offshore Solar to GW-Scale

Feb 20, 2024

An EU joint industry project, bringing together 16 partners, has been launched with the aim of scaling up the standard format of offshore solar to 150 MW and enable the development of GW-scale renewable energy farms.The project, dubbed BAMBOO…

BOOST Consortium Deploys Offshore Solar Demonstrator in Spain

Jan 03, 2024

The BOOST project consortium, coordinated by Norwegian company Ocean Sun, has deployed a 270 kWp-rated offshore floating solar demonstrator close to the port of Tazacorte at La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands.Partially funded by the European Union…

UK Approves Grant for First Offshore Solar Project in Indonesia

Dec 26, 2023

Innovate UK’s Energy Catalyst program has awarded a little over $500,000 in grant funding for a project that will seek to develop Indonesia’s first fully offshore floating solar farm.The grant funding was approved for the Solar2Wave project…

Dutch Developer Hooks $16M to Advance Offshore Solar Business

Dec 21, 2023

Dutch company SolarDuck has secured $16.4 million from existing and new investors for the development and deployment of its offshore solar technology.The funding has been provided by Katapult Ocean, Green Tower, Energy Transition Fund Rotterdam and Invest-NL…

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