ECOMPV

Eco-designing marine photovoltaic installations

EcoMPV - Eco-designing Marine PhotoVoltaic installations

December 2022 - November 2025

Summary

EcoMPV will deepen the knowledge about environmental challenges related to offshore PV installations, aiming at technical solutions to mitigate undesired consequences and maximize beneficial impacts. We will address knowledge gaps about (1) altered underwater light field, hydrodynamics, pelagic biogeochemistry and primary production, (2) the artificial habitat provision for colonizing fauna and fish, and (3) effects on carbon fluxes and sequestration. Advice for ecodesigning offshore PV installations, paving the way to its environmental licensing, will be formulated.

Team members involved

Arthur Capet – Pauline Denis – Florian Ricour

ECOMOD tasks and responsabilities

Work package 1: Effect of MPVs on phytoplankton production and biogeochemical processes

• Task 1.1. Hydrodynamic modeling (with MFC)
• Task 1.3. Primary production: biogeochemical modelling (ECOMOD leader)

Work package 3: Effect of MPVs on carbon sequestration

• Task 3.3. Faecal pellets deposition pattern (with MFC)
• Task 3.4. Carbon sequestration potential

Partners

• RBINS (MARECO coordinator)
• Ghent University
• Tractebel
• Jan De Nul
• DEME

Funding and contract

This project is funded by the FPS Economy (Energy Transition Fund)