Floating Pv and Integration with Hydropower

How can large-scale FPV-hydropower hybrid infrastructures remain safe, resilient, and operationally meaningful under increasing environmental, technical, economic, and climatic uncertainty? This book looks beyond the technical performance of floating photovoltaics (FPV) plants to answer this wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary question.

Rather than treating system robustness solely as a narrow control-theoretic property, the work advances a system-level interpretation in which stability emerges from coordinated design across physical structures, power-electronic architectures, hydrological operation, environmental safeguards, economic mechanisms, operational intelligence, and governance frameworks.

Floating PV and Integration with Hydropower is presented in two volumes, providing comprehensive and flexible coverage of this essential topic. Volume 1 focuses on foundations, principles and design, and Volume 2 on hybrid integration, control and advanced technologies.

In Volume 1, the chapters progress from foundational context and FPV system principles to rigorous modelling, inverter topology and control, and project-level implementation. Two real-world FPV-hydropower case studies provide design-grade evidence, including electrical collection and protection philosophy, site investigation constraints, and mechanical anchoring and mooring foundations.

Volume 2 then expands stability beyond the electrical domain to encompass economic boundedness, mechanical boundedness, socio-environmental boundedness, and policy-level stabilisation. Finally, real-time operational validation is demonstrated through artificial intelligence, SCADA integration, and digital-twin concepts, showing how bounded trajectories and adaptive decision-making can be implemented in practice.

By treating FPV-hydropower hybridisation as an integrated infrastructure problem, this work provides both a practitioner-oriented design reference and a research-facing framework for enabling stable, intelligent, and sustainable energy transitions in water-rich regions.