The same scene at sea can not only make full use of the space between the offshore wind farm fans, but also share the boost and delivery equipment. Therefore, it is a hot research topic both at home and abroad.

SolarDuck, a pioneer in floating photovoltaic technology, and Italian developers have decided to collaborate on an offshore floating landscape project.

The project is located near the port of Taranto, Italy, which is the first 30MW Taranto project in Europe to use domestic offshore wind turbines. The planned capacity of the entire project is 540MW, of which 420MW is floating wind power and 120MW is floating photovoltaic, and the annual power generation is expected to be 160 million KWH.

The developer is Italian firm New Developments, with participation from a fund called Green Arrow Capital.SolarDuck is a start-up company from the Netherlands that has developed a floating unit for floating photovoltaics, which is an equilateral triangle with a side length of 16 meters and can be installed with 20kWp photovoltaic modules. Multiple triangular floating units can be spliced together to form a larger floating array.

The floating unit has completed operational testing on a lake and received the world's first offshore floating photovoltaic design certification from Bureau Veritas.

The project is currently in the approval stage, and if all goes well, it will be up and running as soon as 2028. Prior to this collaboration, SolarDuck is already working with RWE to develop a pilot project in the North Sea with a capacity of 0.5MWp. Editor/Xu Shengpeng