Conference to help support Ireland’s low-carbon transition
Cork will play hosts to a major European wave and tidal energy conference which aims to further the countrys transition to a low-carbon economy.
The conference will look at new ways to deliver and accelerate ocean energy and help the country achieve the Europe set target of 100 Gigawatts of energy coming from marine resources by 2050.
“Ireland imports over 85% of our energy. We need to develop our indigenous energy so that we have security of supply, but also to exploit the incredible market opportunity presented by the 100 Gigawatt target,” said Professor Tony Lewis, Emeritus Beaufort Professor, organiser of EWTEC 2017 and Prinicipal Investigator at MaREI.
“With our outstanding infrastructure, research capabilities and abundant supply of wild ocean around Ireland, we are ideally positioned to become a global market leader in wave and tidal energy as well as a provider of ocean energy technology and solutions.”
The biennial 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference series, which is supported by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), will take place at University College Cork from 27 August through to 1 September 2017.
EWTEC 2017 aims to give leading industry players, such as OpenHydro, Ocean Energy, SeaPower as well as SMEs like Blue Power Energy, Benson Engineering, PureMarineGen, Limerick Wave and Tidal Flyer amongst others, the opportunity to network with leading researchers, academics, innovators and investors in the sector.
For more information on the event visit www.ewtec.org
By Anne-Marie Causer
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