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 and 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)