Recording of Tuesday, May 06, 2025 | The smarter E Europe | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 11:12 .

DNV Unveils New Standards for Floating Solar Systems, Invites Public Review on Station Keeping and Mooring Design

The presentation outlines the development of design standards for floating photovoltaic (PV) systems, emphasizing floats and mooring. Current solar standards are insufficient to address specific safety needs due to potential accidents from unforeseen events or poor designs. Two new DNV standards will be released this year focusing on these crucial components that ensure stability in floating solar installations. DNV's global consultancy extends beyond solar energy into maritime, offshore advisory, cybersecurity, digital solutions, and management certification sectors. Since 2019-2021 with international consortiums including TUV and IEC contributions have been made towards comprehensive guidelines culminating in these upcoming standards. Key topics include updating recommended practices covering site assessment through decommissioning alongside detailed sections on construction materials risks mitigation strategies performance envelopes ensuring robust cross-referencing across documents while inviting stakeholder input before finalization later this year. Additionally discussed is a consortium’s effort to establish station keeping and mooring system standards particularly for offshore environments involving collaboration with independent observers like knowledge institutes resulting in a concise yet structured standard addressing consequence categories limit states safety factors environmental conditions modeling challenges suggesting methods like sheet-based approaches simplifying computational demands facilitating industry feedback prior release later this year.

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Speaker

Jasper Lemmens
Senior Consultant
DNV Netherlands B.V.
The Netherlands

Talk of session: Floating Solar Power: Cost Savings & Reliability - How to Prevent Your Business Case from Failing

Floating solar holds significant potential in regions with abundant water bodies, but practical challenges and high costs have tempered expectations in Europe. While technological advancements are gradually improving feasibility, and companies are even looking for new solutions, such as hybrid-offshore systems, navigating the complexities of deployment, reliability, and financing remains critical for long-term success. This session will discuss: Overview of floating PV market developments Challenges, lessons learned and innovative approaches Environmental implications of FPV applications Technology innovations & standardization developments Cost reduction strategies and financing solutions.

Further Talks of this session:

Welcome & Introduction

Speaker

Michele Tagliapietra
Head of Product Management Floating-PV
BayWa r.e.
Belgium

To Talk

PV Market Overview & Technology Update

Speaker

Dr. Thomas Reindl
Deputy CEO, Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), National University of Singapore (NUS) Cluster Director,
Solar Energy Systems
Singapore

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EU Fpv Offtake Opportunities: Are Current Policies Really Helping?

Speaker

Michele Tagliapietra
Head of Product Management Floating-PV
BayWa r.e.
Belgium

To Talk

Techno-Financial Analysis of Hybrid Offshore Solar-Wind Farms: A Business-Case Assessment

Speaker

Sarah Kluge
Project Manager
Dutch Marine Energy Centre
The Netherlands

To Talk

Model to Predict Impact of Floating Solar on Water Quality, Based on Collected Data

Speaker

Dr. Wilma Eerenstein
Owner / Senior Consultant
Renergize Consultancy
The Netherlands

To Talk

Scalability of Floating Solar Projects in Diverse Regions: Key Strategies for Success

Speaker

Vincent Grumetz
EMEA Managing Director
Ciel & Terre International
France

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Q&A Session

To Talk