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NATURSEA-PV

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NOVEL ECO CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS FOR DURABLE COMPETITIVE AND BI...
NOVEL ECO CEMENTITIOUS MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS FOR DURABLE COMPETITIVE AND BIO INSPIRED OFFSHORE FLOATING PV SUBSTRUCTURES 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 alread... 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. ver más
31/10/2026
TECNALIA
4M€
Duración del proyecto: 48 meses Fecha Inicio: 2022-10-14
Fecha Fin: 2026-10-31

Línea de financiación: concedida

El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2022-10-14
Línea de financiación objetivo El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
HORIZON-CL5-2021-D3-03-10: Innovative foundations, floating substructures and connection systems for floating PV and ocean energy devices
Cerrada hace 2 años
Presupuesto El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a 4M€
Líder del proyecto
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Promoción, el desarrollo y el fomento de actividades de investigación, desarrollo e innovación
Perfil tecnológico TRL 2-3 131M