Tokyu Land and Dutch offshore PV specialist SolarDuck will develop a floating solar project in the Tokyo Bay area.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has awarded Japanese real estate company Tokyu Land a contract to build an offshore floating photovoltaic demonstration project in the Tokyo Bay area.

Tokyu Land stated that it will build the demonstration project in cooperation with Dutch offshore photovoltaic specialist SolarDuck and Tokyo-based Everblue Technologies, and said it would provide more project details after consultation with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Policy Planning Bureau. The three companies aim to commercialize floating solutions throughout Japan in the future.

In 2021, SolarDuck unveiled the first solar demonstration project using its floating structure technology for estuaries, natural harbors and offshore sites, an nearshore site on the Waal (Rhine) channel near IJzendoorn in the Dutch province of Gelderland Deploy a 64 kW system.

Recently, SolarDuck agreed to develop a pilot project in the North Sea in cooperation with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the Netherlands Maritime Research Institute (MARIN) and Deltares. The consortium of companies has received 7.8 million euros in funding from the Dutch government.

The floating array fixes the solar panels at a height of more than 3 meters above the water surface, and is able to cope with coastal sea conditions and hurricanes, and the system is optimized for offshore sites in estuaries and natural harbors, as well as nearshore sites.

The basic floating platform is a 16m x 16m x 16m triangular structure, similar to an offshore floating wind power platform or a floating stone well platform, which can be flexibly connected together to form a large power station.