Floating PV Systems

Dr. Sara Golroodbari is a Postdoctoral Researcher based at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. A solar specialist with an electrical engineering background, she has been working on floating PV systems, conducting her research during her Ph.D. on offshore floating PV in the North Sea, and working on system design, modelling and simulation of floating PV systems and comparison of these systems with land based PV systems. Dr. Golroodbari has experience in collaborating with industrial parties for offshore PV monitoring system design and also designed a smart PV module to mitigate partial shading conditions with a fast response. She was the science communication manager of Cost Action Pearl PV from 2020 until the action finished in 2022. She was also the “Grand Cru Award” winner for the best Dutch presentation in the field of Solar Energy in 2019. Prof. Dr. Wilfried van Sark is “Integration of Photovoltaics” full professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is an experimental physicist by training (MSc/PhD) and has 40 years of experience in the field of photovoltaics. His current activities focus on employing spectrum conversion to increase solar cell conversion efficiency for next-generation photovoltaic energy converters such as luminescent solar concentrators, as well as performance analysis of building-integrated and standard PV systems in the field. He is member of the International Solar Energy Society, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and member of scientific committees of various EU and IEEE PV conferences. He is currently national representative in the International Energy Agency (IEA) PVPS Task 13 (PV Performance, Operation and Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems) and Task 16 (Solar Resource for High Penetration and Large Scale Applications).

• 1. Introduction to floating PV systems2. Structure of floating PV systems3. Performance of floating PV systems4. Floating PV system modelling5. Reliability of floating PV systems6. Economic analysis of floating PV systems