Floating Solar Power II: Insights into the Design and Operation of Successful FPV Projects

Vincent graduated from HEI Lille engineering school and from the Polytechnic School of Montreal. Before joining Ciel & Terre in 2016, he worked for 1 year and a half in international cooperation in Haiti as a construction engineer. Starting as a project manager at Ciel & Terre, he is now in charge of managing the EMEA project implementation team and driving the different scopes offered to customers.

Andrés is CEO of ISIGENERE, the pioneering company in floating solar systems since 2008 when their first floating solar system was designed and installed in Alicante (Spain). Born and raised in Colombia, Andrés studied Computer Science and holds an MBA by the Kellogg Graduate School of Business in USA. Andres started his career working in software startup building systems for big corporations and doing the first ecommerce and intranet systems in Colombia. After his MBA he started working for the consultancy McKinsey & Company in Spain where he advised clients in strategy and technology projects. Later he moved to Aquanima, a procurement services company owned by Santander Bank, the largest Eurozone bank at its time, where he led the growth of the company from 1 country and managing 80 million euros of spend, to 11 countries and 8000 million euros of spend. Now as part of Isigenere, Andrés is leading the growth of the company in utility scale and self-consumption projects while continuing the innovation by creating new and better versions of ISIFLOATING, its floating solar system. The Isifloating technology is recognized in the industry for its high-quality, durability, safety and low cost of logistics and installation. Since 2008 ISIGENERE has already implemented floating solar projects in 4 continents in different types of water bodies: large dams, hydroelectric facilities, quarry lakes, brackish water, irrigation reservoirs and other types of artificial reservoirs.

Dr. Wu Weiwu, currently the CTO of Sungrow FPV is mainly engaged in the planning, development, and listing of FPV products. He also responsible for research and development of FPV system solutions. Formulate and evaluate more than 30 patents; have full experience in FPV system development and marketing management

Director of Innovation Projects Development in EDP Generation Platform is presently working in several pro-jects of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) Hybridization, including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and Floating Solar in Hydro Power Plants. In the past 20 years he has been responsible for several projects in Distributed Control Systems (DCS) of EDP Thermal, Hydro and Wind Power Plants, including the implementation of the Control Center for EDP Renewables Wind Power Plants in Iberia, the Floating Photovoltaic (PV) Pilot System in Alto Ra-bagão Hydro Power Plant and more recently the Floating PV System with Battery in Alqueva Hydro Power Plant and the pipeline of BESS projects in Azores islands, Portu-gal. Paulo holds a pre-Bologna degree in Electrical Engineering - Power Systems from Instituto Superior Técnico, Univer-sidade Técnica de Lisboa, 1990, post graduated in Project Management in Portuguese Catholic University and holds since 2005 the Project Management Professional (PMP) credentials from the Project Management Institute (PMI).

After a BSc in Energy Engineering at University of Bologna and a MSc in Sustainable Energy Technology at TU Delft, specializing on Solar PV & Energy Storage, Michele worked first as a Technical Consultant and Project Manager at DNV, leading technical advisory and certification firm in the Energy space, and since September 2022 as Head of Product Management Floating-PV at BayWa r.e., international developer and IPP with a strong leading position and the highest track record in Europe (250 MWp) for Floating-PV projects. Michele has been working for more than 5 years in the interesting and booming industry segment of Floating-PV, covering key responsibility roles and pushing the international agenda in the field, including managing international projects towards standardization. He is now responsible of supporting BayWa´s strategy, development and expansion in the Floating-PV space.