The conference will address the following three main topics:

1. Ocean Renewable Energy Development, including all aspects needed to create power projects such as: resource and site assessment, advanced stage technologies, system and plant components, test site experience, pilot project planning and implementation experience. This topic will focus on the following ocean energy sources: wave, tidal streams and maritime currents, tidal rise and fall, ocean thermal energy conversion and salinity gradient.

2. Removing barriers and creating opportunities for deployment. It includes a wide range of aspects which can facilitate the deployment of ocean energy such as socio-economic, environmental aspects and involvement in maritime spatial planning; interconnection and grid integration; financing, insurance and permissions; technology consolidation; standardisation and certification or lessons learnt from offshore wind.

3. Synergies with other maritime and energy sectors, aiming at showing similarities and common opportunities between ocean energy and other more mature sectors such as offshore wind, oil & gas, shipbuilding, installations and operations at sea or electrical conversion.

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Venue: Bilbao, Spain