North Sea seaweed gets greener with world's first floating solar aquaculture project

• Darius Snieckus, Recharge • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

North Sea seaweed gets greener with world's first floating solar aquaculture project
Elias Sch. on Pixabay

Floating solar technology is being used for the first time to power a seaweed farm, off the coast of the Netherlands.

Billed by its developer Oceans of Energy as a “world-first for sustainable, multifunctional use of space in the North Sea”, the PV-powered aquaculture plant, developed with the Seaweed Company 12km off Scheveningen in the north of the country, aims to be an “example for the future [designs]” of offshore energy complexes in northern Europe.

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