Featured in Connected to technology – 05-2020

The sea is the limit

Two new test facilities are looking to expand PV’s reach beyond the constraints of land and toward the open ocean. And if the steep learning curve from freshwater floating PV installations is anything to go by, the data produced at the test beds will prove invaluable.

By

Jonathan Gifford

25 May 2020

Image: TNO

Under the brackish waters of the Oostvoornse Meer lie more than a dozen shipwrecks, some dating as far back as the 16th century – relics of a rich maritime history, adventurous Dutch seafarers, and mercantile explorers. The body of water only became a lake in the 1950s, when it was sealed off from the ocean …

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