DNV bids to standardise FPV development via new joint industry projects

• Energy advisory DNV has actually introduced 2 joint industry projects (JIPs) aimed to standardise the development of floating PV (FPV).

Both JIPs will certainly aim to produce an anchoring and mooring design standard in addition to a float design, testing and also qualification standard, both aimed to resolve particular issues to FPV structures.

The very first practice aimed to improve designs' ideal practices around anchoring and also mooring structure, will certainly address challenges encountered in the release of projects in larger islands with shallow drafts.

Whereas the second JIP, based upon DNV's very own expertise as well as network in order to develop a unified standard will certainly introduce clearer, much faster as well as more affordable performance-based procedures set to lower failure rates of FPV projects and also enhance its top quality.

Still at a nascent stage, the development of the FPV market is accelerating with 2GW of international set up capacity in 2020 as well as DNV estimates that 7-11GW will certainly be installed by 2025. With Asia readied to lead the industry in the next decade.

However, an FPV development standard was doing not have which might create hold-ups and obstacles in permitting as well as authorisation as it relies in various other fields of the industry.

Last year DNV established a recommended practice on the design, development and procedure of FPV systems which was seen as a "very first step" to standardise development of FPV.

Juan Carlos Arévalo, executive vice president at GPM&S, a DNV firm, stated: "This will not cause the convergence of floating solar photovoltaic or pv modern technology into a leading concept, however rather establish a common technique to analysis and also simulation that enables players to consistently improve on one another's finest practices and also lay out industry-wide testing as well as quality assurance procedures."

In October 2021, DNV awarded Chinese inverter supplier Sungrow the first statement of conformity for its anchoring as well as mooring design approach for floating planetary systems.