Descrizione del progetto
Progetti innovativi per le sottostrutture fotovoltaiche galleggianti offshore
A causa delle difficili condizioni marine, raramente si ricorre all’impiego di impianti fotovoltaici (FV) galleggianti in ambienti offshore. Il progetto NATURSEA-PV, finanziato dall’UE, svilupperà progetti strutturali innovativi in grado di gestire le condizioni marine, garantire la durata e ridurre al minimo i costi di (dis)installazione. NATURSEA-PV migliorerà la durata complessiva, l’affidabilità e la manutenibilità delle sottostrutture marine per gli impianti fotovoltaici galleggianti offshore e ridurrà i costi totali livellati della produzione di energia utilizzando calcestruzzo ad altissime prestazioni di nuova concezione, ecologico e a basso contenuto di carbonio. Il progetto creerà anche uno specifico toolkit di simulazione predittiva per valutare la durabilità meccanica e chimica dei nuovi materiali. Infine, i partner del progetto collaboreranno con associazioni, enti pubblici e autorità di regolamentazione per valutare gli ostacoli all’attuazione e i potenziali impatti sulle attività socio-economiche e sull’ambiente, proporre misure correttive e garantire l’accettazione sociale della tecnologia.
Obiettivo
The green transition strategy of the EU aims to a climate neutral economy by increasing the use of renewable energy sources, being offshore floating photovoltaics (PV) one of the target technologies. Although floating PV is already used in shallow inland waters, its use in offshore environments is not common due to the harsh marine conditions and thus requires a revamping of the technology. The main objective of NaturSea-PV is to improve the overall lifetime, reliability, and maintainability of marine substructures for offshore floating PVs and thus reduce its LCOE. For this, NaturSea-PV will develop innovative structural designs capable of handling the marine conditions, at the same time ensuring the durability and minimizing (un)installation costs. The substructures will be built using newly developed environmentally friendly low carbon ultra high performance concrete and will be coated with new biobased antifouling and anticorrosive coatings. A specific predictive simulation toolkit will be developed to assess the mechanical and chemical durability of the new materials under marine conditions and will be validated against experimental data. The new materials and structural design will be first validated in the laboratory (testing), then integrated in prototypes to check the buildability and to be validated in relevant environments. NaturSea-PV will co-develop and co-validate the project results with external stakeholders while assessing the potential environmental and social impacts and perception to verify that the proposed solutions compatible with existing regulations and socio-economic activities taking part in the sea to maximize the impact of offshore floating-PV solutions. The results and knowledge from the project will be managed to have the most effective exploitation (e.g. IP) and widest possible communication and dissemination to forward the implementation of successful floating PV substructures with circular materials and low, competitive, LCOE.
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