Follow us: Seminar and B2B meetings “Powering the future – Marine

Follow us:
Seminar and B2B meetings “Powering the future – Marine energy opportunities”
Date: 5th of
November
2009
Venue: Centro
Cultural de
Belém (CCB),
Lisbon,
Portugal
The WavEC – Wave Energy Centre has invited Innovation Norway and the UK Trade
& Investment to organise an one-day international event on “Powering the future –
Marine Energy Opportunities”, on the 5th of November 2009 at CCB in Lisbon,
Portugal. This event aims to reinforce business relationships on marine renewable
energy sector between players from the country triangle Norway-UK-Portugal. The
synergies of these 3 countries of the Atlantic Arch are evident and call for a better
economic exploitation in this challenging and capital-intensive field.
The event programme consist of a set of presentations in the morning, followed by
Business to Business (B2B) meetings for all interested parties in the afternoon.
The event gathered experts and business players from the UK, Norway and Portugal to
enhance the dialogue, to promote business opportunities and to accelerate ocean energy
technology development.
Download here the FINAL PROGRAMME.
Speakers:
Sjur Bratland - Statoil (Norway); Monika Bakke - Wave Energy AS (Norway); Sian
McGrath - Aquamarine (UK); Nuno Santos - Navalria/Grupo Martifer (Portugal); Luís
Trigo - Kymaner (Portugal); Custódio Miguéns - PCTE - Pólo de Competitividade e
Tecnologia da Energia (Portugal); Michal Forland - Sway (Norway); Graham Bibby AWS (UK); David Langston - Voith Hydro Wavegen (UK); Luís Vasconcelos Dias Lindley Marinas & Sinalização (Portugal); Alla Weinstein - Principle Power Portugal;
Ron Tucker - VerdErg (UK).
Moderator: Tiago Pitta e Cunha, Member of the Cabinet of the Commissioner for
Maritime Affairs (European Commission)
This event is co-financed by the Waveplam Project within the Intelligent Energy
Executive Agency Programme of the EC.
PROGRAMME
09:00 – 09:20
Opening Session: WavEC’s director António Sarmento, Inga
Magistad, Ambassador of Norway and Alexander Ellis,
Ambassador of United Kingdom
Moderator: Tiago Pitta e Cunha, Member of the Cabinet of the
Commissioner for Maritime Affairs, European Commission
09.20 – 09:35
Custódio Miguéns, PCTE - Pólo de Competitividade e
Tecnologia da Energia,
Portugal
Pólo de Competitividade e Tecnologia da Energia
09:35 – 09:50
Graham Bibby, AWS Ocean Energy, UK
AWS - delivering tomorrow's proven wave energy technology
09:50 – 10:05
Sjur Bratland, StatoilHydro, Norway
Hywind - The world first fullscale floating windturbine
10:05 – 10:20
Luís Trigo, Kymaner, Portugal
The OWC option
10:20 – 10:35
Michal Forland, Sway, Norway
Sway floating wind turbines
10:35 – 10:50
David Langston, Voith Hydro Wavegen, UK
Engineered reliability
10:50 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:45
Luís Vasconcelos Dias, Lindley Marinas & Sinalização,
Portugal
Partner rather than supplier
11:45 – 12:00
Nuno Santos, Navalria/Grupo Martifer, Portugal
NAVALRIA – Shipyard facilities at the service of offshore
energy industries
12:00 – 12:15
Monika Bakke, Wave Energy AS, Norway
Generating electricity from marine civil works
12:15 – 12:30
Sian McGrath, Aquamarine Power, UK
Aquamarine Power – from Oyster 1 to delivering commercial
farms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARIg3oQtZ0w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiYrYK8ITbU
12:30 – 12:45
Ron Tucker, VerdErg, UK
SMEC - Spectral marine energy converter
12:45 – 13:00
Alla Weinstein, Principle Power Portugal
The Windfloat - a deep water offshore wind solution
13:00 – 13:15
Q&A
13:15
14:30 – 18:30
End of the Seminar
B2B meetings