Product
Sunlit Sea delivers floating solar panels. Below you will find an overview of how we manufacture and deploy our installations.
Floating Solar Panels
Sunlit Sea delivers prefabricated floating solar panel installations. This saves time, reduces multiple sources of risk and the amount of personnel needed to assemble the modules on site. The floats are delivered as strings, perfectly designed to fit a shipping container, which offers effortless handling and quick deployment.
The panels lay flat on the water, providing optimal cooling from the water underneath, excellent behavior on waves, and very high wind resistance. The flatness and the robustness of the float makes it possible to walk on the panels, which again makes for easy operation and maintenance.
Each delivery comes with preattached mooring lines, deployment equipment, hinges for inter-string connection, dummy floats for interverters and cabling, and electrical cables on each string. The installer needs to provide inverters and anchoring.
From manufacturing to deployment
Our quick manufacturing and deployment process is what makes Sunlit Sea stand out. By pre-assembling the floats they can easily be transported and deployed on water. This leads to easy logistics and low capital binding. Our industry specialists possess up to date expertise of the marine environment, and will consult customers on issues regarding mooring, location and installment. Once set up on either salt og fresh water, the strings are pulled out and towed to site by boat. Multiple strings are then connected to form larger modules. The product is guaranteed to deliver a minimum of 25 years of electricity production, with a 10 year product warranty.
Construction
The installation is formed by two aluminum sheets that are clinched together to form a float. The alloy of metal has multiple properties that makes it ideal for the marine environment; it is intrinsically robust and conducts heat exceptionally well. It is corrosion resistant due to its oxide layering that forms a protective coating, and it holds no magnetic characteristics. To enhance the structural integrity the aluminum backplate has multiple dimples, a design that conduct heat down into the water underneath very well. The solar panel itself is laminated on top of the float, using technology from the window and facade industry, resulting in very high resistance to water ingress. The solution has very good hydrodynamic and aerodynamic properties and can handle rough sea well.
Prefabrication
Prefabrication offer a range of advantages for both humans and climate, among others:
- Faster time to market - lower capital binding and loss of value.
- Lesser environmental footprint at installation site.
- Possible to walk on the surface - safer and easier maintenance and inspection.
- Lower transport and logistics costs.
- Lower installation costs.
- Lower maintenance cost.
- Environmentally friendly - efficient production and logistics means much lower carbon footprint. Also no flora or fauna pollution at the installation site.
- Scalable business model with lower costs and capital binding.
Application areas
Thanks to extended longevity and rapid decommissioning our installations are applicable for a wide variety of operations, such as dredging, commercial harbors or even as a supplement to other energy producing facilities, such as dams. The system may feed power into municipal or regional grids for city integrated solar or energy intensive industries like data storage centres.
Specification
Panel weight
60kg
Watt peak per panel
537W
Float dimensions
1.88m x 1.88m
Distance between panels
15cm
Cottages
Hydroelectric dams
Desalination
Marinas
Dredging
Deep sea mining