Annual Report 2017
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José Luis Villate TECNALIA, in collaboration with APPA-Marina


RELEVANT NATIONAL EVENTS

The third edition of the Marine Energy Week took place in Bilbao in the last week of March 2017. For the first time and together with Sinaval International Shipbuilding, Future Port Bilbao, and Eurosifhing conferences, four of them were celebrated under a bigger event named WMW – World Maritime Week. The conference, organized by EVE, TECNALIA and the Bilbao Exhibition Centre, brought experts from leading agents, companies, researchers and decision-makers involved in the offshore wind and ocean energy sectors. Marine Energy Week comprises international project meetings, technical visits, a poster session focused on research activities, an industrial workshop on offshore wind supply chain, an offshore wind conference, an ocean energy conference and an exhibition area integrated with WMW, including networking and B2B spaces.

The Wave Energy Basque Country group supported the organization of the Ocean Energy Europe 2017 conference in Nantes with a silver sponsorship.

APPA-Marina, jointly with the Naval Engineering School of Madrid organized the third edition of the National Annual Conference on Marine Renewable Energy in Madrid in November 2017. Test centre representatives, Government officials, researchers and industry leaders provided an in-depth coverage of the current and future industry, highlighting specific areas of growth as well as the latest technological developments in Spain. APPA-Marina, founded in 2006, is formed by the main Spanish stakeholders working on ocean energy and offshore wind. Its main objective is to bring together Central and Regional Governments, R&D institutions and industrial companies interested in the development of marine renewable energy.

The Spanish Association of Marine and Offshore Engineers (AINE, as it is known in Spanish) organised the 8th edition of ENERMAR in June at PLOCAN onshore offices in Taliarte (Telde), on the island of Gran Canaria, entitled “The sea and renewable energies: the contribution of Marine and Off-shore Engineering”. The event was attended by more than 70 professionals.

The Marine Renewable Energy working group of the Atlantic Arc Commission was created in 2010 at the initiative of Cantabria that chaired it until 2013. The Basque Government took over the presidency of the group in 2017. The creation of this group is the result of the growing interest for MRE in the Atlantic for environmental (cleaner energy) and economic (high potential, creation of jobs and growth) purposes. The aim of the group is twofold: ensure a legal monitoring in the field of MRE; bringing together the MRE stakeholders.