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Floating photovoltaic (FPV) is an innovative technology that enhances renewable energy production in Europe while addressing land use and energy efficiency challenges.

FPV must prove its sustainability, by demonstrating low impact on biodiversity and satisfy end-of-life requirements, its longevity and reliability by demonstrating system components that satisfy structural and functional requirements for the entire lifecycle, and its affordability, by reducing the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from FPV power plants.

Floating PV aid the transition to
a climate-neutral and resilient society and
contribute towards the EU policy goals.

These are the challenges that the objectives of SuRE seek to overcome. Activities are structured into 3 generalizable topics, SUstainability, Reliability, and Efficiency, which gives SuRE FPV its name, and are designed to advance the entire FPV industry. 

We will further work with concrete technology developments for 3 leading European FPV technologies to improve their design, sustainability, cost-competitiveness and application range. The three FPV technology providers are Ciel et Terre (CTI), who has installed 1.2 GWp on all continents, Zimmermann PV-Steel Group (ZIM), who is dominating the European FPV market, and Sunlit Sea (Sunlit) who is providing an innovative FPV solution for off-shore deployment.

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