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Transported 900 metres along the Seine, a 78 kW temporary photovoltaic power
A 78 kW floating PV plant powered the Paris Olympic Village. It was transported 900 meters along the Seine River to supply renewable electricity for the athletes village.
The world''s largest mobile floating PV plant was used on the Seine River for the Paris Olympics. Rented by EDF ENR, the 78 kW solar installation provided green electricity to the central hub of the athletes village.
The project, spanning 470 square meters, operated independently without connecting to the grid, adjusting its output in real time to match the site''s needs. It was set up and fully operational in under 24 hours by unfolding and connecting pre-wired solar panels housed in a shipping container.
Franck Chauveau, director of major project development for EDF in Île-de-France, told pv magazine France that it was the first mobile PV plant to be used in such a manner on a body of water.
The innovative PV structure offers an alternative to generators to supply electricity at events such as the Olympic Games, trade fairs and festivals, as well as remote locations not connected to the public grid. Voies Navigables de France (VNF), which manages most of France''s inland waterways, has shown particular interest in using it for construction sites along riverbanks.
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Transported 900 metres along the Seine, a 78 kW temporary photovoltaic power plant has been docked at the Athletes’ Village to provide renewable electricity to meet the demands of the Olympic and Paralympic Place in Paris.
Assembled and dismantled in 24 hours, the floating solar power plant can be reused for other events to replace generators.
From pv magazine France
Moored on the banks of the Seine, the temporary PV installation is being touted as the largest floating and mobile solar power plant in the world. The system, rented especially for the Olympic Games by energy company EDF ENR to a subsidiary, helps supply clean electricity to the Olympic and Paralympic Square in the Athletes’ Village.
Operating on pure self-consumption, the temporary solar power plant does not feed in electricity into the grid, requiring real-time adaptation of electricity production to the site’s consumption. Spread over 470 square meters and with a capacity of 78 kWp — the consumption of 94 apartments in the Village — the installation’s main advantage is that it can be set up and dismantled very easily.
To unfold it on the pontoon, all that is required is open the doors of the shipping container that houses it, pull out the pre-wired solar wings, connect them together and plug the whole thing into the container – where the inverter, protection systems and all the electrical components are located – to have an operational solar power plant in less than 24 hours.
"This is the first time in the world that we have sailed a photovoltaic power plant. Even if it was only 900 meters, the distance between the place where the installation is unloaded and where it is assembled," Franck Chauveau, director of major project development for EDF in Île-de-France, told pv magazine France.
Beyond performance, this type of PV structure, innovative in its process, is an advantageous alternative to the use of generators to supply electricity to events such as the Olympic Games, trade fairs or festivals, or even isolated sites not accessible to the public network.
The Voies Navigables de France (VNF), the French navigation authority responsible for the management of the majority of the country’s inland waterways, is the first to take an interest in it, particularly to carry out construction sites along the banks of rivers.
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