Photovoltaic Potential of the Dutch Inland Shipping Fleet: An Experimentally Validated Method to Simulate the Power Series from Vessel‐Integrated Photovoltaics

The surface of the vessels, as moving tiny islands, can be utilized to implement vehicle‐integrated photovoltaics (VIPV). Herein, a methodology is reported to calculate the power generated by a fleet of urban vessels as a function of time. Then, the result is shown for the largest European shipping fleet, using sailing data of 2746 Dutch general cargo vessels. Results show that the studied fleet can produce ≈ 226 GWh of energy per year, which corresponds to ≈ 6.5% of the whole fleet's energy demand. Next, this research validates the model with three week experimental data gathered by a test ve... Mehr ...