OEE2021 – Net-zero powered by the ocean
Building back better means investing now to secure a zero-carbon future. This year’s conference programme looks at how ocean energy technologies will help us reach this goal, and what is needed to get there. Revenue support and affordable finance are at the very top of the list, and the OEE2021 programme will highlight how the current offshore strategy can support the sector in securing these.
The ocean energy sector’s mission is clear: deploy, deploy, deploy! The conference will feature the latest deployments and the projects that are in the pipeline. It will show how, as an indigenous resource, ocean energy is creating a resilient industry, quality jobs and an extensive supply chain across Europe and beyond.
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Catch up with your ocean energy colleagues while seeing the Brussels sights and getting your heart rate up!
Join us on the eve of OEE2021 for a run throughout Brussels, the heart of Europe. The route will begin and end at the EGG, the OEE2021 venue. The route will take you through Brussels’ historic medieval centre and go through parts of Brussels that tourists usually never see.
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A firm favourite every year, the session will present the most exciting projects to hit the water in 2021, whether because of technology excellence, sheer size, macroeconomic benefits or new markets.
Chair: Rémi Gruet, CEO, Ocean Energy Europe
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Martin Edlund
CEO | Minesto
Guillaume Gréau
Head of Business Development | HydroQuest
Cameron McNatt
Managing Director & Founder | Mocean Energy
Alejandro Marques
CEO | Magallanes Renovables
Andrew Scott
CEO | Orbital Marine Power
The European Offshore Strategy has a clear short-term objective for ocean energy: 100MW by 2025. The industry has made clear that this target is achievable … if the right framework is in place. This session assembles political, governmental and industry leaders to articulate how that framework should look.
Chair: Sue Barr, Chair, UK Marine Energy Council
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Patrik Möller
CEO | CorPower Ocean
Joachim Balke
Head of Unit Infrastructure & Regional Cooperation, DG ENER | European Commission
Diego Pavia
CEO | InnoEnergy
Davide Magagna
Energy and Ecological Transition Expert | Ministry for the Ecological Transition
Donagh Cagney
Policy Director | Ocean Energy Europe
This session will provide a glimpse into the future of ocean energy in Europe. OEE will open the scene with key findings from the ‘Target 2025’ ocean energy project pipeline analysis and leading developers will present their upcoming demonstration projects.
Chair: Rémi Collombet, Senior Policy Officer, Ocean Energy Europe
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Drew Blaxland
Director of Turbine and Engineering Services | SIMEC Atlantis Energy/Normandie Hydrolienne
Fanch Le Bris
CEO | Sabella
Edoardo Dellarole
Head of Marine Energy Program | Eni
Sam Roch-Perks
Managing Director | Simply Blue Group
A supportive policy environment at national level is necessary for the deployment of ocean energy multi-device farms. The Interreg NWE Ocean DEMO project is working actively with national governments in North-Western Europe to create policies that will enable the immense potential of ocean energy.
This side event will bring together national policy experts from France, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to discuss the current ocean energy policy landscape in their respective countries and how it can be improved in the future.
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Rob Flynn
Commercial Manager | EMEC
Sue Barr
Chair | UK Marine Energy Council
Peter Coyle
Chair | MRIA
Anne Georgelin
esponsable de filières Energies marines renouvelables et Hydroélectricité | SER
Sander des Tombe
Dutch Marine Energy Ambassador | OEE
Existing ocean energy projects are based on a mostly European supply chain, reaching from coastal regions to landlocked countries. This session will explore the supply chain opportunities that ocean energy creates. The session will also launch the forthcoming ETIP Ocean publication on the socioeconomic impact of ocean energy.
Chair: Lukasz Kolinski, Head of Unit for Renewables & System Integration Policy, European Commission
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Henry Jeffrey
Head of Policy and Innovation Group | University of Edinburgh
José Ignacio Hormaeche
General Manager | Basque Energy Cluster
Richard Parkinson
Managing Director | Inyanga Marine Projects
Peter Scheijgrond
CEO | Bluespring
Annemarie Hoffman
Manager Strategy & Finance | Teamwork Technology
A range of developers will present their WECs (Wave Energy Converters) and give an insight into their plans for deployment and testing. Several devices have been installed over the past year, and this session will be an opportunity to hear about these projects and how WECs are being made more robust and more cost-efficient.
Chair: Rob Flynn, Commercial Manager, EMEC
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Mile Dragić
R&D Engineer | SIGMA ENERGY
Erwin Meijboom
Co-founder | Slow Mill
Graham Foster
Co-Founder, Chairman & CTO | Marine Power Systems
Patrick Boscher
Project management and product development | SINN Power
Michael Henriksen
CEO | Wavepiston
This technology showcase will feature several of the world’s leading developers of OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) and SWAC (Sea Water Air Conditioning). Find out about how these innovative technologies have a massive potential to provide power and heating/cooling, and what the latest advances are in the field.
Chair: Yann-Hervé de Roeck, Executive Director, France Energies Marines
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Fiona Buckley
Senior Expert and Project Manager | ENGIE
Bruno Garnier
President | Deprofundis / Club SWAC France
Roy Issa
Chef de projet | Geocéan
Join us for drinks and an informal dinner in this wonderful Halles Saint Géry, built in the characteristic Flemish neorenaissance style. Network with your peers and colleagues, catch-up with old friends and make new connections!
Dinner tickets are not included in the delegate pass price and can be purchased during registration.
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European support opportunities for ocean energy have never been greater. This is your chance to sit down face-to-face with European funders, to better understand the possibilities now and into 2022. You’ll be able to discuss what’s in store for the Innovation Fund Small-Scale call, Horizon Europe, the revamped BlueInvest Fund, the European Innovation Council’s Accelerator programme, and an exciting new opportunity from the Basque Energy Agency.
Chair: Donagh Cagney, Policy Director, Ocean Energy Europe
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Iain Shepherd
Senior Expert | European Commission
Chrysafis Argyros
Project Advisor | Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
Gabriela Mara
Project Officer | Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
Uwe Lutzen
Team Leader | The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
Endika Aldaiturriaga
Project Coordinator | EVE – Basque Energy Agency
Francesca Harris
Project Manager | The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
The blades of a tidal turbine determine how much energy is captured from the tides. Different solutions for blade design are under development, all with one goal: to maximise seaworthiness, yield and efficiency while reducing costs and the risk of failure. But does one design fit all? Leading tidal developers discuss/debate the different approaches for blade design in terms of materials, shape, pitching and non-pitching.
Chair: Marlène Moutel, Founder and Deputy CEO, Laminak Energy
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Drew Blaxland
Director of Turbine and Engineering Services | SIMEC Atlantis Energy
Mario Iglesias
Managing Director | Magallanes Renovables
Erwann Nicolas
Project Engineer | Sabella
Bevan Wray
Project and Innovation Manager | Tocardo
It is now well understood that tidal and wave energy’s core added value is their flexibility. However, saying these technologies bring ‘value to the grid’ is not enough. This session will go beyond the slogans and showcase studies and real-world cases to demonstrate how ocean energy technologies can help balance the electricity grid.
Chair: Andrew Smith, Founder, Deja Blue
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Shona Pennock
Research Associate | University of Edinburgh
Rémy Garaude Verdier
Manager of European Affairs | Enedis
Helma Maria Trondheim
Industrial PhD Student | SEV
Anders Jansson
Commercial Director | CorPower Ocean
Mark was born and brought up in west Wales before moving to Cardiff more than 30 years ago. Since then he has lived in the Pontcanna area of Cardiff. A former probation officer, youth justice worker and Barnardos project leader in Ely and Caerau, he has been a professor of Social Policy and Applied Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Mark has also taught previously at Swansea University.
In the 1980s and 1990s Mark was a Labour Councillor on South Glamorgan County Council, specialising in education issues, including Welsh medium education. Between 2000 and 2010 he worked as the Cabinet’s health and social policy adviser at the Welsh Government, and was latterly head of the First Minister’s political office. He has a 40 year knowledge of the Cardiff West constituency.
Mark became the Assembly Member for Cardiff West in May 2011. He was Chair of the Assembly’s Health and Social Care Committee from July 2011 – March 2013 and of the All-Wales Programme Monitoring Committee for European funds from July 2011 – March 2013. He was appointed Minister for Health and Social Services in March 2013. He was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government in May 2016. Mark was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Finance on 3 November 2017. On 12 December 2018 Mark was appointed First Minister of Wales and became a member of the Privy Council on 13 February 2019. Mark was appointed First Minister on 13 May 2021.
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Every project that installs ocean energy devices in real-sea conditions includes monitoring of potential environmental impacts. To date, impacts of single devices have been negligible. As the sector progresses towards pilot farms, developers are making sure that no harm is caused to the marine environment. In this session, speakers will reveal what’s going on under the water at the first tidal stream pilot farms and full-scale wave deployments.
Chair: Xavier Guillou, Team Leader, European Commission
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Peter Thomson
UN Special Envoy for the Ocean | United Nations
Carol Sparling
Director | Sea Mammal Research Unit
Borja de Miguel Para
Advanced Design & Analysis Engineer | IDOM
Dorleta Marina
Project Manager | Biscay Marine Energy Platform
Rob Flynn
Commercial Manager | European Marine Energy Centre
Our annual tidal energy showcase will once again shine a light on the latest developments in tidal stream technology. Developers will present their newest projects, and share the advances they have made when it comes to device design, materials and cost reduction.
Chair: Marlène Kiersnowski, Director of Development, Énergie de la Lune
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Maarten Berkhout
CEO | SeaQurrent
Diane Dhomé
Chef de Projet | Inyanga Marine Projects
Alejandro Marques
Business Development Manager | Magallanes Renovables
Willem Molenaar
Business Developer | Water2Energy
Erwann Nicolas
Project Engineer | Sabella
Guillaume Gréau
Head of Business Development | HydroQuest
Ricardo Serrão Santos was born in 1954. Lives in the portuguese Autonomous Region of Azores.
Doctor in Biology and Animal Ecology he is Principal Researcher at the University of the Azores, Pro-Rector of the University of the Azores and President of IMAR – Institute of Marine Research.
He was Director of the Department Oceanography and Fisheries of Unniversity of Azores.
Ricardo Serrão Santos has been dedicated to the study of marine biodiversity and ocean ecosystems, and has more than 400 hundred published works of which more than 200 papers in SCI journals included in the Web of Knowledge. He is co-editor of a book on “Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation”, and co-author of a Virtual Centre of Marine Interpretation (CIMV).
During his academic career coordinated and chaired several scientific organizations of the EU, Portugal and the Azores. He holds positions in several scientific advisory bodies and committees among which the Oceanographic Institute of Paris. He is Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Marine Science/ Deep-Sea Environments and Ecology.
Ricardo Serrão Santos is member of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences and Emeritus Member of the Portuguese Navy Academy.
He has received several honorable mentions and awards, among which a «Gift to the Earth» by WWF in 2002, the “Insígnia Autonómica de Reconhecimento” awarded by the Legislative Parliament of the Azores and the Azores Government in 2012, commended “Chevalier de l’Ordre de Saint Charles” by SAS Prince Albert II of Monaco in 2013, awarded the Prize “Excellence Mare” awarded by PwC Portugal in 2017.
He was also Member of the European Parliament between 2014 and 2019.
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Join OEE membership for an evening of sharing knowledge, connecting and catching up! This members-only event will give membership an opportunity to hear all about the Horizon Europe funding programme, hear from successful (and not!) grant applicants and re-connect with the OEE secretariat.
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The third OceanSET Knowledge Sharing workshop will present results of the third survey carried out across Member States and Ocean Energy device developers in Europe. The results will focus on Member States and partnering non-EU countries’ policy and infrastructure, nationally funded projects, technology costs and performance, and suggestions for improvements.
This year we will also provide an update on the EuropeWave pre-commercial procurement programme and the upcoming wave energy projects being selected to progress the Ocean Energy sector.
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Gianmaria Sannino
ENEA
Rachel Power
SEAI
Ana Andrade
DGEC
Tim Hurst
WES
The Horizon 2020 OCEANERA-NET COFUND project is now in its fifth year and has successfully implemented two Joint Calls for collaborative, trans-national research, development and demonstration projects to tackle some of the key challenges and opportunities for ocean energy. The 9 projects funded under the Co-funded Joint Call are reaching completion and have exciting results to report, while we have 4 projects ongoing under the second call. This side event will hear from companies on the benefits of collaborative innovation and OCEANERA-NET support, and the results they have achieved.
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To boost the competitiveness of tidal energy, the NEMMO project aims at optimising tidal turbine blade design and performance by making a larger, lighter, and more durable composite blade for floating tidal turbines.
This project, now in its third year, has already made great progress in testing and producing tailored composites, coatings and appendages for a novel tidal blade. This side event will highlight the latest findings on materials and modelling and the results they have achieved.
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Virginijus Sinkevičius has held the position of the European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, since December 2019. Before taking up this post, he was Minister of the Economy and Innovation of the Republic of Lithuania and a Member of the Lithuanian Seimas (Parliament).
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Kadri Simson is an Estonian politician from the Centre Party, European Commissioner for Energy in the von der Leyen Commission since 1 December 2019. She was previously Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications in Jüri Ratas’ first cabinet from 2016 to 2019.
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