A trio of developers have unveiled plans for a large-scale hybrid project combining floating solar PV panels and floating offshore wind turbines off the coast of southern Italy.
Floating solar project manufacturer SolarDuck, Italian asset manager Green Arrow Capital, and renewables developer New Developments plan to combine a 420MW floating wind farm with a 120MW floating solar array off the coast of Calabria in southern Italy.
They claim the project in the Gulf of Taranto would harness the complementary nature of wind and solar resources, which typically peak at different hours of the day.
Green Arrow CEO Giovanni Guzzo said that the developers are currently awaiting permitting approval for the project and believe it could come online in 2028.
SolarDuck’s elevated platform technology allows solar PV panels to be deployed in significant wave heights. It is due to build a 5MW pilot project at RWE’s Hollandse Kust West VII wind farm in a bid to demonstrate the robustness of its solution and enable the scaling of the technology to accelerate its adoption.
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