Solar2Wave: Design of Floating Solar Farms to Overcome Tough Ocean Waves

印尼约有2.73亿人口，其中仍有150万人无法使用能源网络。这些人生活在偏远的岛屿上，依赖昂贵且不可靠的柴油发电。Solar2Wave项目将进行基于浮动光伏(FPV)的创新，以解决印尼偏远岛屿的能源获取问题。一个FPV农场是完全可扩展的，因为它由小的独立太阳能电池板组成。不同大小的FPV养殖场可以沿着岛屿的海岸线放置并与居民连接。特别是，Solar2Wave的创新可以确保FPV电池板在入射海浪中保持完好，从而提供可持续的解决方案。通过为印尼偏远岛屿提供能源接入，Solar2Wave将改善经济、工作条件、教育、医疗服务和灾害抵御能力。这一点将通过一个基于典型岛屿的案例研究来证明。根据目前的可行性研究，Solar2Wave将展示为印度尼西亚的约6000个岛屿提供居民的潜力。这项创新将使FPV成为一个有吸引力的解决方案，以取代该国目前88%的使用化石燃料的电力。我们可以预见FPV在印尼的长期发展。英国和印尼将从关联企业中受益。印尼巨大的FPV市场可能是两国建立合资企业、扩大贸易以及文化和教育活动的黄金机会。最终，Solar2Wave将推动世界上将FPV从湖泊外推到海洋的趋势。该项目将帮助我们实现净零目标，缓解气候变化。

Indonesia has a population of approximately 273m, of which 1.5m still lack access to the energy grid. These people live on remote islands, relying on diesel power generation that is expensive and unreliable.The Solar2Wave project will carry out a floating photovoltaic (FPV)-based innovation to solve the energy-access issue of Indonesia's remote islands. An FPV farm is fully scalable, as it consists of small individual solar panels. Different sizes of FPV farms can be placed along the coastal line of an island and connected to residents. In particular, the Solar2Wave innovation can ensure that FPV panels remain intact from incident ocean waves, and thus provide a sustainable solution.By providing energy access to Indonesia's remote islands, Solar2Wave will bring improvements to the economy, working conditions, education, health services, and hazard resilience. This will be demonstrated through a case study based on a representative island.Following the present feasibility study, Solar2Wave will show the potential to be placed for ~6000 islands of Indonesia with residents. The innovation will make FPV an appealing solution to replace the country's current 88% electricity using fossil fuels. We can foresee a long-term development of FPV in Indonesia. The UK and Indonesia will benefit each other from the associated businesses. The enormous FPV market in Indonesia can be a golden opportunity for these two countries to establish joint corporations, and conduct extended trade as well as cultural and educational engagements.Eventually, Solar2Wave will be boosting the world's trend of extrapolating FPV from lakes to seas. The project will help us achieve the Net-Zero goal and mitigate climate change.