Floating Photovoltaics
Design, Performance, Degradation, Financial Sustainability, and Environmental Impacts
- 1st Edition - January 13, 2026
- Latest edition
- Authors: Anik Goswami, Pradip Kumar Sadhu, Senthil Kumar Natarajan, Prabhakar Mahalingam
- Language: English
Floating Photovoltaics: Design, Performance, Degradation, Financial Sustainability, and Environmental Impacts offers broad coverage of floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems, enabling… Read more
Description
Description
Researchers, advanced students, faculty, engineers, R&D, scientists, and policymakers with an interest in FPV systems will find this book to be an interesting resource.
Key features
Key features
- Covers the design of FPV systems and their performance analysis in comparison with land-based PV systems
- Addresses the effects of weather and location, as well as reliability and degradation analysis for real outdoor conditions
- Discusses lifetime energy generation, and economic and environmental sustainability, supported by case studies
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Floating solar photovoltaic power generation history and concept
1.3 An overview of solar photovoltaic from materials to application
1.4 Thin-film solar panels
1.5 Sustainable development goals
1.6 Recent trends in floating photovoltaic
1.7 Conclusion
2. Prefeasibility assessment of floating solar photovoltaic systems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Location selection
2.3 Water body characteristics
2.4 Anchoring and mooring systems
2.5 Tilt angle
2.6 Power transmission
2.7 Conclusion
3. Design of floating photovoltaic systems
Nimesh Kumar Singh, Sagnik Bhattacharya and Pradip Kumar Sadhu
3.1 Components required for designing floating solar photovoltaic systems
3.2 Design of floating solar photovoltaic systems
3.3 Inverter selection and sizing for floating solar photovoltaic systems
3.4 Battery selection and sizing for floating solar photovoltaic systems
3.5 Balance of system
3.6 Losses and mismatch conditions
3.7 Case study
3.8 Conclusion
4. Degradation of floating photovoltaic systems
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Mathematical modeling
4.3 Degradation analysis
4.4 Reliability analysis
4.5 Parameter extraction techniques in solar photovoltaic systems
4.6 Conclusion
4.7 Problems
5. Performance analysis of floating photovoltaic systems
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Types of Solar photovoltaic systems
5.3 Solar radiation
5.4 Performance metrics of FPV systems
5.5 Case study: performance assessment of FPV system
5.6 Conclusion
5.7 Numerical problems
6. Financial sustainability of floating photovoltaic systems
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Capital cost
6.3 Cost of materials
6.4 Operational expenses
6.5 LCOE calculations
6.6 Payback period analysis
6.7 Net present value analysis
6.8 Economic sensitivity analysis
6.9 Case study
6.10 Results
6.11 Conclusions
7. Environmental impacts of floating photovoltaic systems
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Water evaporation control
7.3 Water temperature variation
7.4 Carbon dioxide analysis
7.5 Lifetime carbon dioxide savings
7.6 Carbon trading and carbon taxes
7.7 Interaction of aquatic ecosystem with floating photovoltaic
7.8 Case study
7.9 Summary
8. Policy recommendation for floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Clear land-use and water body classification
8.3 Incentives and financial support
8.4 Grid integration and energy storage
8.5 Environmental considerations and impact assessment
8.6 Research, innovation, and capacity building
8.7 International cooperation and standards
8.8 Long-term vision and policy coordination
8.9 Conclusion
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 13, 2026
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Anik Goswami
Anik Goswami is an Assistant Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai, India. His research covers solar photovoltaic systems, floating solar photovoltaic (FSPV) systems, energy economics, and sustainability. He completed his Ph.D. at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad with specialization in Power Electronics and Electrical Drives, and received the university gold medal for securing 1st rank in M.Tech. Dr. Goswami has published numerous papers in SCI-indexed journals relating specifically to FSPV design and development, as well as working on the economic and environmental sustainability of PV and FSPV systems. He also has 1 granted and 1 applied patent, and acts as a reviewer of several SCIE-indexed journals.
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Pradip Kumar Sadhu
Dr. Pradip Kumar Sadhu is a Professor (HAG) and former Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India. He has more than two decades of teaching, research, and academic leadership experience. His research expertise includes power electronics and drives, high-frequency converters, multiphase systems, condition monitoring, intelligent control, underground mine communication and safety systems, and grid-connected renewable energy technologies including solar photovoltaic applications. He has guided many Ph.D., M.Tech., and B.Tech. scholars and has been the principal investigator and collaborator in several sponsored research projects. Dr. Sadhu has authored or co-authored over 250 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences, holds multiple Indian patents, and has contributed to several edited books and technical monographs.
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Senthil Kumar Natarajan
Senthil Kumar Natarajan is currently serving as Professor and Dean in the School of Electrical Engineering at VIT, Chennai, India. He obtained his Ph. D degree from Anna University in 2010. His area of research interest is on modelling of FACTS devices for small signal stability enhancement and transient stability studies, distributed generation control, microgrid control and protection, and smart grids.
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Prabhakar Mahalingam
M. Prabhakar is a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering (SELECT), Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, since 2019, having previously been Associate Professor at the same institution since 2012. He is also associated with the Centre of Smart Grid Technologies since 2022. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2012. His research interests include power electronics, power converters, high gain DC-DC converters, and DC microgrids. Prof. Prabhakar has co-authored more than 50 research articles in various high impact factor journals and conferences, is an active reviewer for various journals, and has received seed grant funding of Rs. 4.53 lakhs from VIT Chennai. He also received the Outstanding Teacher Award for his excellent teaching and research contributions in 2009, and the Research Award from VIT Chennai for his research contributions since 2012.