Floating PV Plants
Marco Rosa-Clot, Giuseppe Marco Tina, Marco Rosa-Clot, Giuseppe Marco Tina
- 138 pages
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Floating PV Plants
Marco Rosa-Clot, Giuseppe Marco Tina, Marco Rosa-Clot, Giuseppe Marco Tina
Ă propos de ce livre
Renewable energy sources (RES) are one of the important instruments that human beings can use to tackle problems created by climate change. We expect a quick expansion of RES in the next few years.
One important new technology is the floating photovoltaic (FPV) which is at its very beginning but which after only 10 years from its first proposal has already reached the target of 2 GWp of plants installed.
This book explores the reasons for such growth and the advantages of this new technology. FPV plants are easily integrated into any human settlements and can use available fresh water as well as salt water near coastal areas. So their geographic potential is unlimited.
Furthermore, their environmental impact is limited and the managing and decommissioning of plants are very cheap.
The book offers a perspective on the many facets of this technology as well as an analysis of the economic aspect and of the final electricity cost which in a short time will go down to less than 50 $ per MWh.
Contributions from different authors have helped in sectors such as the raft structure, the wave impact, and the environment problems.
- Investigates the installation of photovoltaic systems over the water's surface
- Offers theoretical and practical explanations on how to study, analyze and design photovoltaic energy systems
- Considers how the use of floating photovoltaic systems can work to fulfill domestic energy demand
Foire aux questions
Informations
Introduction
Abstract
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1. Renewable Energy Sources: Why Floating PV Plants?
- âą Simplicity and reliability
- âą Scalability
- âą Low costs
- âą Availability worldwide even near human settlement with limited environmental impact
- âą Land use: The requirement for a large surface of land due to low PV panel efficiency (typically around 14%), this implies that a 1 MWp power station requires at least 15,000 m2 of land, and this has a large environmental impact since the land cannot then be used for other purposes (agriculture, pasture, etc.).
- âą Incentives: The photovoltaic market was doped by very high incentives values. These were necessary for the start-up of the PV sector, but made the customers to use large land areas, which could have been exploited for other economic purposes. Since 2011, the incentives began to disappear at global level and, as a consequence, the PV market suffered a slowdown and the PV had to face the competition of other energy sources [1] (Fig. 1.4).
Rate of Growth | Rate of Growth | |
---|---|---|
5 years 2007â12 | 5 years 2012â17 | |
Technology | ||
Total renewable energy | 7.7% | 8.6% |
Renewable hydropower | 3.4% | 3.2% |
Wind | 23.8% | 14.0% |
Solar photovoltaic | 61.9% | 31.7% |
Bioenergy | 9.1% | 6.9% |