Floating solar farm to be developed along Ostend shore next year

• Dutch company Seas of Energy has revealed plans to create a solar farm off the coastline of Ostend next year that must eventually offer adequate electricity for 1,000 houses, Belga News Agency reports.

The installment of floating solar panels will certainly cost EUR15 million as well as will certainly be partially moneyed by the European development program Horizon 2020. The project will certainly be established in collaboration with Blue Accelerator-- a maritime screening facility just outside Ostend's harbour.

Technical construction began last month and it is really hoped that the website will certainly start operating in autumn 2022. The website's location was chosen so that it might take advantage of the Blue Accelerator platform that intends to support offshore innovation and also increase overseas projects, of which Belgium now has many.

Additionally from 2022, Blue Accelerator will be utilized to check a prototype of offshore solar panels established, partly, by the University of Ghent. This longer-term project might cause the development of one more business solar parc in the years ahead.