Floatovoltaics is a cute name for solar photovoltaic systems that float on water. This can be a viable option for installing solar where a water body is available for siting and especially when other siting options could prove more difficult for any variety of reasons.
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Scholarly literature[edit | edit source]
- Cagle, Alexander E., Alona Armstrong, et al. 2020. "The Land Sparing, Water Surface Use Efficiency, and Water Surface Transformation of Floating Photovoltaic Solar Energy Installations" Sustainability 12, n19: 8154. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198154.
- Clemente, G., S. Ramos-Marin and C. Guedes Soares. "Overview of the floating offshore photovoltaic energy potential," in Advances in Maritime Technology and Engineering (Guedes-Soares and Santos [Eds]), 2024, ISBN 978-1-032-83107-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=6VcIEQAAQBAJ&newbks=0&hl=en&source=newbks_fb
- Koami Soulemane Hayibo, and Joshua M Pearce, "Foam-based floatovoltaics: A potential solution to disappearing terminal natural lakes," Renewable Energy, February, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.02.085
- Koami Soulemane Hayibo, Pierce Mayville, and Joshua M Pearce, "The greenest solar power? Life cycle assessment of foam-based flexible floatovoltaics," Sustainable Energy & Fuels, January 2022. DOI: 10.1039/D1SE01823J.
Media reports[edit | edit source]
- "Ciel & Terre forms US floating solar JV -- Company has installed over 230 floatovoltaic projects globally totalling 162MW" [Electronic article, Renews.Biz, 5 August 2021.
- Renews.Biz -- Articles Tagged "Floating Solar."
- Graham, Lester, and Rebecca Williams, 2024, Why some municipalities are looking at putting solar panels on water [Michigan Public radio], https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2024-06-10/why-some-municipalities-are-looking-at-putting-solar-panels-on-water
Links[edit | edit source]
- YouTube video from US National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Exploring Floatovoltaics
