New OEE Co-Presidents and Directors target pre-commercial deployments
Offshore renewables industry body Ocean Energy Europe (OEE) has appointed Simon De Pietro (DP Energy, Ireland) and Laurent Schneider-Maunoury (Naval Energies, France) as its new Co-Presidents.
OEE says the pair will set the industry’s strategy in the coming years, as it aims to deploy pre-commercial farms in European waters.
Mr De Pietro was reappointed after an interim election in 2016. Mr Schneider-Maunoury will serve his first term as OEE co-President. Co-Presidents are elected for a three-year term.
Seven of the key figures in the industry were also elected to the OEE Board of Directors confirming the high-level orientation of the Board. The new appointments represent most aspects of the ocean energy sector from all around Europe.
The elected Directors are:
* Tony Lewis, Beaufort Professor Emeritus, MaREI
* Patrik Moller, CEO, Corpower Ocean
* Kieran O’Brien, European Director, Carnegie Clean Energy
* Pablo Ruiz-Minguela, Head of Wave Energy, Tecnalia
* Andrew Scott, CEO, Scotrenewables Tidal Power
* Jochen Weilepp, Board Advisor, Schottel Hydro
* Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director, EMEC
By Jake Frith
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