Events calendar
October – December 2019
The European Week of Regions and Cities is an annual four-day event during which cities and regions showcase their capacity to create growth and jobs, implement European Union cohesion policy, and prove the importance of the local and regional level for good European governance.
Not to be missed:
The turn of the tide: why marine energy is tomorrow’s renewable energy | Tuesday 8 October | 1430 – 1500
Olver Wragg, Commercial Director is speaking within this session, highlighting how marine energy can contribute to the EU’s clean energy transition. Oliver will address what the industry’s major challenges in moving forward are, as well as reviewing the key successes, especially from being involved in several Interreg North-West Europe projects supporting innovation from real-sea testing.
For more information and to register, click here: #EURegionsWeek
The PERISCOPE partnership invites you to join them and other international stakeholders in Brussels on 5th November 2019 to discuss how the North Sea Region can achieve global leadership in the blue economy, with a special focus on EU programming towards 2030.
EMEC are a consotrium partner in the Interreg North Sea Region PERISCOPE project, with Rob Flynn, International Business Manager attending the forum.
Agenda:
Moderator: Marjolein Van Noort, Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners
09.00 – 10.00 Opening session
The forum will kick off with introductory contributions of keynote speakers who will share with you their experiences and visions on the future development of the Blue Growth sector.
Keynote speakers:
Felix Leinemann, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG MARE
Kerstin Brunnström. President, North Sea Commission
Arjen Uytendaal, President, Nederland Maritiem Land and the European Network of Maritime Clusters.
10.00 – 10.55 Global Challenges and Blue Sector Competitiveness
Due to global drivers, the wider maritime, marine and offshore economies are exposed to profound challenges. The European Maritime sector needs to strengthen the strategic use and implementation of new (digital) technologies and to have the rightly skilled and trained workforce. Industry experts and analysts share their views on how to remain competitive and innovative.
Speakers:
Rémi Gruet, CEO, Ocean Energy Europe
Matteo Bocci, Senior policy Expert, Ecorys
Claudio Bittencourt Ferreira, DNV GL
11.10 – 12.00 Blue Innovation Ecosystems
How can we through Smart Specialization of regions help European companies to capitalise on emerging global opportunities and stay competitive? The session will focus on business support, the development of cross-border innovation ecosystems supported by open innovation platforms and infrastructures, skills development and access to funding.
Speakers:
Tor Ivar Eikaas, The Research Council of Norway Brussels Office
Erik Bunis, Process manager, OffshoreVäst Cluster
David Knukkel, RIMS BV
12.00 – 13.00 Policy Panel Debate
In this moderated session a Panel will discuss the main topics which have been raised by the speakers. You and other members of the audience can share your views in this open and interactive debate.
Panelists:
Felix Leinemann, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG MARE
Kerstin Brunnström. President, North Sea Commission
Arjen Uytendaal, President, Nederland Maritiem Land and the European Network of Maritime Clusters.
Rémi Gruet, CEO, Ocean Energy Europe
Erik Bunis, Process manager, OffshoreVäst Cluster
Mathias Bernander, Member of County Council, Agder County
13.00 – 14.00 Networking Lunch
For more information and to register, click here: PERISCOPE Forum 2019
The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Annual Assembly will take place on Wednesday 6th November 2019 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Supergen ORE provides research leadership to connect academia, industry, policy, and public stakeholders, inspire innovation and maximise societal value in marine energy.
Attending Supergen 2019:
- Elaine Buck, EMEC’s Technical Manager
If you would like to set up a meeting, please contact: info@emec.org.uk | (0)1856 852060.
For more information and to view the programme, click here: Supergen Annual Assembly
The International Tidal Energy Summit (ITES) is taking place on 11th November 2019, at the Hilton Hotel, Canary Wharf, London.
Attening ITES 2019:
- Carly Tait, Marketing Officer
- Ruari Brooker, Performance Test Engineer
If you would like to organise a meeting, please email info@emec.org.uk or call +44(0)1856 852060.
ABOUT ITES 2018:
Tidal Energy is a viable alternative to fossil fuels but deploying the technology commercially has proven difficult to date. As an industry, we need to deliver on these projects, work together to find practical solutions, and put the industry on the front foot again.
But, this is not easy. Proving technology to secure finance, create bankable projects and ultimately lower LCOE are major challenges, challenges we must overcome.
The International Tidal Energy Summit is an opportunity to make this step change. To bring together the stakeholders who can truly influence the future of the Tidal Energy industry.
For more information, to download the agenda and to register, click here: International Tidal Energy Summit 2019
The European Utility Week is the platform to meet top-level European energy professionals, form new relationships and drive new collaborative projects forward. This year it will be held on the 12 -14th November 2019 in Paris.
Attending EUW 2019:
- Oliver Wragg, Commercial Director
If you would like to set up a meeting, please contact: info@emec.org.uk | (0)1856 852060.
Not to be missed:
Hub Sessions Programme:
Day 1 | 12 Nov | 1635 – 16.50 | What’s hot in storage? | Energy Revolution | Theatre 2
Oliver Wragg will be presenting within the Energy Revolution hub session on the ReFLEX (Responsive Flexibility) Orkney project, which will demonstrate a first-of-its-kind Virtual Energy System (VES) interlinking local electricity, transport, and heat networks into one controllable, overarching system. Finfd out more on how the the project aims to create a ‘smart energy island’, demonstrating the energy system of the future, which will reduce and eventually eliminate the need for fossil fuels.
Day 3 | 14 Nov | 1045 – 1100 | Hybrid Plants and Clean Energy Hubs | Distributed Generations | Theatre 10
As part of POWERGEN Europe, Oliver will be giving a presentation on ‘ReFLEX | How Orkney is building flexibility into a renewables dominated energy system’. Orkney currently generates 120% of its energy demand through renewables sources, and Oliver will speak about how this can be built into a flexible energy system for the islands.
To download the EUW programme, click here: EUW Programme
For more information and to register, follow: European Utility Week 2019
EMEC and project partners would like to invite you to attend two tidal workshops that we are holding on Tuesday 12 November, the day following the International Tidal Energy Summit.
9.30am – 11am: MONITOR Tidal Developer Forum: Share learnings and provide feedback into this reliability focused project and support the progression of tidal energy.
11.30am – 1pm: Ocean_2G Tidal energy converter, testing & demonstration: end of project workshop. Providing insight into deployment and installation of Magallanes Renovables ATIR tidal platform by Leask Marine, sharing learning from testing at EMEC, power generation and project learnings & challenges.
Both events will be held in the Canary Riverside Plaza in London.
If you’d be interested in attending either of these workshops, please RSVP by emailing carly.tait@emec.org.uk to book your place by 31 October. Registration is free, however spaces are limited.
If you’re unable to attend but would be interested in joining remotely, please let us know and we can send you digital access.
Neil Kermode, Managing Director, will be giving a keynote address to the Institute of International & European Affairs, demonstarting how the alchemy of turning seawater into electricity has finally been proven to be both predictable and achievable. He will argue that much of the development has occurred in the remote archipelago of Orkney and has spurred an energy revolution which has led to hydrogen and the mass roll out of electric vehicles. Mr Kermode will provide a personal perspective on the potential of marine energy to tackle climate issues and develop a new economy for the 21st century.
To register for this event, click here: Marine Energy: News from the North
The Society for Underwater Technology are holding their North of England Evening Meeting on the 20 November at the Newcastle University with the theme of the Marine Energy Industry.
EMEC’s Operations and Technology Director, Jonathan Lindsay, will be giving a presentation on EMEC, with an overview of the numerous technologies that have tested across the test sites in Orkney and a look at the marine renewables industry as a whole highlighting important opportunities for the supply chain.
For more information and to book your place, click here: SUT North of England
The Association for Renewable Energy & Clean Technology are hosting a one day event on ‘Decarbonising trucks, trains, boats and planes’ on the 3rd December 2019 in London.
Neil Kermode, Managing Director of EMEC will be attending and giving a presentation on Orkney and its aspirations for making hydrogen from renewable electricity to be used as a means of decarbonsing transport within the archipelago of islands.
About Decarbonising trucks, trains, boats and planes:
Electrification should help decarbonise passenger car transport in the future, but heavier haulage, shipping and aviation are far more challenging sectors. A new sub-target for strategic fuels for these sectors was introduced on 1st January 2019, via the amended Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO). This Development Fuels sub-target requires oil companies to source a growing percentage of their supply from fuels such as renewable aviation and drop in fuels, hydrogen or synthetic natural gas made from eligible feedstocks. The eligible feedstocks comprise biomass wastes (but not those currently used in the making of biodiesel) and fuels made from renewable electricity.
What role might Development Fuels play, and what potential is there for more conventional biofuels, such as higher blend biodiesel and HVO? To what extent might off-gas grid, hard to heat housing compete for these fuels?
Come to this conference to find out what the fuels of the future might be for trucks, trains, boats and planes; hear about the technologies involved; meet the companies developing these fuels and see how the DfT is taking the first steps in encouraging the transformation of fuelling these hard-to-decarbonise sectors.
Click here to download the programme and to register: Decarbonising TTBP
Interreg North-West Europe are holding an event on 4 – 5th December 2019, in Lille, France.
About NWE Making an Impact:
This is Interreg’s first impact event which will focus of the results achieved by the 83 NWE projects funded to date, and how to further support their uptake and impact. Through a wide variety of sessions and formats, the programme will offer unique opportunities to network, exchange and explore new potential collaborations.
Attending:
- Nicolas Wallet, Programme Manager
- Susan Learmonth, Programme Officer
If you would like to organise a meeting, please conatct: info@emec.org.uk | (0)1856 850060.
Exhibiting:
Several Interreg projects led by EMEC will be exhibiting at the event to showcase project achievements and find opportunities to network and find synergies with other similar projects.
FORESEA (Funding Ocean Renewable Energy through Strategic European Action):
FORESEA is an €11m Interreg North West Europe project. Its helps bring offshore renewable energy technologies to the market by providing free access to North-West Europe’s world-leading network of test centres.
Since its launch, FORESEA has increased real-sea testing activity in the ocean energy sector. 19 technologies have successfully deployed at European test centres with FORESEA support, with more to come in the next 12 months.
Ocean DEMO (Demonstration Programme for Ocean Energy Pilot Farms and Supporting Technologies):
Ocean DEMO provides funding to developers of marine renewable technologies to test their products or services in real sea environments. This allows developers to move closer to market by demonstrating their technologies at full commercial scale. The first Ocean DEMO deployment is already ongoing and a there’s a lot more to come next year.
During this event, we will present the project’s plans and future impact on the ocean energy sector and North West Europe regions.
ITEG (Integrating Tidal energy into the European Grid):
ITEG is an €11 million Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) project launched in Orkney in 2018 to develop an all-in-one solution for the generation of clean predictable energy, grid management, and the production of hydrogen from excess capacity.
Register for this free event by the 15 November here.
