SolAqua 2 - MarSa funding
From July 2017 to July 2018
Maritime Seed Award
Funded by Marittima together with the University of Malta launched in 2017 the Maritime Seed Award (MarSA) with the support of the University’s Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO), TAKEOFF Business Incubator and Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Incubation (CEBI).
The Funding helps innovators and entrepreneurs interested in bringing their ideas closer to commercialization.
Objectives
Through this fund, the aim of SolAqua 2 was to find the optimal design both of the structure and the PV system. Regarding the structure the focus was the lowest cost structure that would withstand the expected forces and the work on the PV system was to maximize the power output thus improving overall cost.
As a result a raft was designed that is modular and can be scaled up virtually to any size. Its compound design using several materials lends itself well to making it low cost. Preliminary cost analysis indicated that such a raft could be built, in volume, at a cost that is competitive to land based systems.
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