SolarMarine Energy - Projects
SolarMarine Energy Projects
SolarMarine Energy completes a wide range of projects including both research and commercial projects. Many of these are commercially sensitive so not included on our website, others are less sensitive so details of some of these projects are included below. Please contact us for more, we’d be glad to share further information with you if required; we can also arrange non-disclosure agreements to allow the appropriate exchange of more sensitive information.
Marine Institute of Ireland
Project: Floating Solar Hybrid Energy Plant
Partners: University College Cork
Deliverables: Design of a Floating PV Plant to power Hydrogen Electrolysis
Link to Summary Report: Floating Solar Hybrid Energy Project – Final Report
Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE2 Project)
Project: Floating Solar Energy Plant Testing Programme
Partners: Queens University Belfast
Deliverables: Assessment of Wind uplift forces acting on Floating PV Panels and measurement of structural loads on different Floating PV plant designs
DNV GL Joint Industry Project - Recommended Practice for FPV
Project: Development of Recommended Practices for Floating PV Industry
Partners: 26 International Floating PV Developers
Deliverables: Recommended Practice for Design, development and operation of floating solar photovoltaic systems
Link to best practice: DNVGL-RP-0584
Bryden Centre
Project: Floating Solar Energy to power Photocatalysis
Partners: Queens University Belfast
Deliverables: Study of Photocatalysis and FPV
European Union, Interreg Atlantic Area,
Project: Providing Clean Hybrid Photovoltaic electricity solutions for Ports, Coastal Communities & Islands
Industry Partner: SolarMarine Energy Ltd
National Partner: Údarás na Gaeltachta
Academic Partner: University Collage Cork
Team Partners: Júlia Terra M. Machado (University College Galway); Ken Russell (Sligo Institute of Technology)
Deliverables: Market Research & Strategy for Application of Floating PV to Supply Shoreside Power for Shipping. Our team won first place in the Final ahead of stiff competition from 12 other early stage technologies of the Emporia4kT project and produced the video below: