Potential of floating solar technology in Malaysia

Mohd Alif Saifuddin Jamalludin (Aflex Ships Equipment Sdn Bhd)
Firdaus Muhammad Sukki (Robert Gordon University)
Siti Hawa Abu Bakar (Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute)
Fadzliana Ramlee (University of Glasgow)
Abu Bakar Munir (University of Malaya)
Nurul Aini Bani (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Mohd Nabil Muhtazaruddin (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Abdullahi Abubakar Mas’ud (Jubail Industrial College)
Jorge Alfredo Ardila Rey (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
Ahmad Syahrir Ayub (Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute)
Nazmi Sellami (Universiti Kuala Lumpur British Malaysian Institute)

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS)
Vol 10, No 3: September 2019

Solar energy is a natural source of energy and is tremendously abundant. The concept of floating solar is to fulfil and to support the existing energy supply in order to enhance the human life. The floating solar exploits the massive availability of ocean region and the severe unavailability of land. The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potential of floating solar to be deployed in coastal or infield in Malaysia. It was predicted that such system could generate around 14,530 MWh per annum in Malaysia. It can be concluded that floating solar could be one of the most important ocean structures in the future because it is reliable, flexible and has virtually low cost production comparing with other ocean structures