Floating Solar: A Case Study.

How developing
economies and the UK can adapt to constraints
for development of solar technologies
B. Shahid

Abstract—Floating solar PV may be a significant development in

solving the space constraint issues for land use when it comes to
installation of PV power plants. A grid tied solution with floating
solar PV modules on a water body can be assessed using industry
standard design criteria and energy simulation results can be
compared with a grid tied solution of same system size. Energy
production, performance ratio and specific yield can be optimized
and recommendations for future installation of floating solar can be
suggested by looking at specific sites for a case study.

Keywords—Floating solar, grid tied PV systems, solar energy

technologies, solar photovoltaics.

F. A. Author is with the National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Boulder, CO 80305 USA (phone: 303-555-5555; fax: 303-555-5555; e-mail:
author@ boulder.nist.gov).
S. B. Author, Jr., was with Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 USA. He
is now with the Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, CO 80523 USA (e-mail: author@lamar. colostate.edu).
T. C. Author is with the Electrical Engineering Department, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA, on leave from the National Research
Institute for Metals, Tsukuba, Japan (e-mail: author@nrim.go.jp).