Sunny waters: meeting our energy, water and climate mitigation needs with floating solar

提高资源和能源生产率是《工业战略》的核心。促进对科学、研究和创新的投资；开发技能;升级基础设施，支持企业创业和发展；提供负担得起的能源和清洁增长；培育世界领先的行业支柱。浮动太阳能是一种提高能源生产效率的手段，因为水安装系统可以产生更多的能量，如果与直接电线一起部署，可以减少传输损失。因此，考虑到处理和移动水的高能量需求，英国的水库是一个绝佳的位置。然而，由于对水质影响的了解有限，部署受到阻碍。英国是这项技术的早期采用者，不知道浮动太阳能对全球的影响。因此，除了为清洁能源和基础设施支柱提供支持外，该项目还将支持企业启动、发展和培育一个世界领先的行业。考虑到浮动太阳能的全球潜力，这将在全球范围内突出NERC科学，并将英国企业建立在这种良性太阳能部署就业方式的全球发展的前沿。

Increasing resource and energy productivity is central to the Industrial Strategy. Delivering to the investing in science, research and innovation; developing skills; upgrading infrastructure, supporting business to start and grow; delivering affordable energy and clean growth; and cultivating world-leading sectors pillars. Floating solar is a means to increase energy production efficiency as water mounted systems produce more energy and, if deployed with a direct wire, reduce transmission losses. Consequently, UK water reservoirs are an excellent location given the high energy demands to treat and move water. However, deployment is hampered by limited understanding of the impacts on water quality. The UK is an early adopter of this technology and no knowledge of the impacts of floating solar exists globally. Consequently, in addition to delivering to the clean energy and infrastructure pillars, this project will support businesses to start and grow and cultivate a sector to be world-leading. Given the global potential of floating solar this will highlight NERC science globally and establish UK business at the forefront of the global development of this virtuous means of solar energy deployment employment.