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Floating Solar PVs Engineering Services

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Floating Solar Engineering Consultants

ABL Group company Innosea is a pioneer in the development of floating solar PV (photovoltaic) farms, offering a comprehensive package of front end engineering, design and advisory services to support innovation and construction of this growing technology.

50

floating solar projects

9

countries

990 MWp

floating solar capacity

Our Floating Solar Engineering Expertise

The Group has successfully evolved its service offering and in-house capabilities at pace with the rapidly developing floating solar PV market, and has been invited to join four multinational Research & Development (‘R&D’) projects: 

  • INTERREG North-West Europe – Marine Energy Alliance 
  • Trust-PV
  • BOOST Project
  • DNVGL Floating Solar JIP 

Floating PV Services

Combining our technical excellence in the engineering and design of marine renewable energy sources, with the wider Group’s long-term legacy in de-risking marine operations, ABL Group is perfectly placed to provide comprehensive technical support on floating solar farms in all types of locations: reservoirs, quarry lakes, open water etc. 

Core floating solar services include: 

  • Owners’ Engineering 
  • Engineering & Design 
  • Expertise & Numerical Modelling of dynamic behaviour under wind and wave loads

    Contact our experts

    We work closely with renewable teams across the Group and Longitude Engineering to provide market-leading support at every stage of a floating solar PV farm’s life-cycle – from early concept and planning, through to operations and maintenance:

    Floating Solar PV Farms Design 

    • Management & Supervision
    • Control room
    • Production optimisation
    • Annual Energy Production
    • Logistics design 

    Planning & Permitting 

    • Concept Development Pre-FEED
    • Environmental Monitoring & Impact Assessment 
    • Navigation Risk Assessments in support of EIA
    • Human Impact Assessment

    Site Conditions 

    • Site Selection and layout 
    • GHI, wind and wave, current, soil survey
    • Annual energy production 
    • Developer and/or financier support
    • FEED

    Floating Solar PV Farms Construction 

    Floater 

    • Suitability review 
    • Selection and interaction with AEP and mooring design 
    • Tender specifications
    • Package management 

    Floater 

    • Suitability review 
    • Selection and interaction with AEP and mooring design 
    • Tender specifications
    • Package management 
    • Technical Due Diligence
    • HSEQ

    Transport & Installation 

    • Marine Warranty Survey services
    • Tender specifications
    • Package management 
    • Marine engineering 
    • Cable installation, routing, in-place