{"id":142645,"date":"2022-07-22T08:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T13:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-pilot-project-in-the-north-sea-will-develop-floating-solar-panels-that-glide-over-waves-like-a-carpet"},"modified":"2022-07-22T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T13:31:55","slug":"a-pilot-project-in-the-north-sea-will-develop-floating-solar-panels-that-glide-over-waves-like-a-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-pilot-project-in-the-north-sea-will-develop-floating-solar-panels-that-glide-over-waves-like-a-carpet","title":{"rendered":"A pilot project in the North Sea will develop floating solar panels that glide over waves \u2018like a carpet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-pilot-project-in-the-north-sea-will-develop-floating-solar-panels-that-glide-over-waves-like-a-carpet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German energy firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/RWE-FF\">RWE<\/a> is to invest in a pilot project centered around the deployment of floating solar technology in the North Sea, as part of a wider collaboration focused on the development of \u201cfloating solar parks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Set to be installed in waters off Ostend, Belgium, the pilot, called Merganser, will have a capacity of 0.5 megawatt peak, or MWp. In a statement earlier this week, RWE said Merganser would be Dutch-Norwegian firm SolarDuck\u2019s first offshore pilot.<\/p>\n<p>RWE said Merganser would provide both itself and SolarDuck with \u201cimportant first-hand experience in one of the most challenging offshore environments in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German energy firm RWE is to invest in a pilot project centered around the deployment of floating solar technology in the North Sea, as part of a wider collaboration focused on the development of \u201cfloating solar parks.\u201d Set to be installed in waters off Ostend, Belgium, the pilot, called Merganser, will have a capacity of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}