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TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental impacts and benefits of marine floating solar
AU - Hooper, Tara
AU - Armstrong, Alona
AU - Vlaswinkeld, Brigitte
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Solar Energy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Solar Energy, ?, ?, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2020.10.010
PY - 2020/10/14
Y1 - 2020/10/14
N2 - Deployment of floating solar photovoltaic installations (floatovoltaics) is advancing, with various designs beginning to appear in a range of marine environments. Insight from freshwater floatovoltaics is not readily transferable offshore, and so lessons from other marine energy infrastructure are used to highlight how the marine environment may impact floatovoltaics, how the floatovoltaics impact the environment (both positively and negatively) and the likely societal response. It becomes clear that research to understand the environmental and societal implications of floating solar in the marine environment must proceed in parallel with investigations of the technical and economic feasibility.
AB - Deployment of floating solar photovoltaic installations (floatovoltaics) is advancing, with various designs beginning to appear in a range of marine environments. Insight from freshwater floatovoltaics is not readily transferable offshore, and so lessons from other marine energy infrastructure are used to highlight how the marine environment may impact floatovoltaics, how the floatovoltaics impact the environment (both positively and negatively) and the likely societal response. It becomes clear that research to understand the environmental and societal implications of floating solar in the marine environment must proceed in parallel with investigations of the technical and economic feasibility.
U2 - 10.1016/j.solener.2020.10.010
DO - 10.1016/j.solener.2020.10.010
M3 - Journal article
VL - 219
SP - 11
EP - 14
JO - Solar Energy
JF - Solar Energy
SN - 0038-092X
ER -