Faced with the challenges of the sea’s harsh conditions, BAMBOO will advance the technology through cutting-edge sustainable innovations and bring it closer to commercial and financial / investment readiness. It will do this by tackling technical challenges for scaling up the system and for lifetime performance and reliability, whilst exploring opportunities for nature enhancements and mitigating negative impacts on environment. 

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The project’s main objectives comprise: 

• Realizing improvements in design and robustness to extend and validate solar farm lifetimes to 25 years, in order to decrease the Levelized Costs of Energy (LCOE) by 50%, while addressing reliability and performance 

• Expanding the technology’s application potential and de-risking investments through enlarging the current demonstration prototype systems to 5 MW scale and extending the testing period from 18 to 54 months 

• Increasing understanding and addressing environmental impacts and opportunities of large-scale offshore solar systems to responsibly expand offshore solar applications and deliver environmental monitoring guidelines and end-of-life strategies for large-scale solar 

• Enabling a fundable business case for the implementation of a first 1 km² offshore solar system integrated in a wind farm before the end of the project