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Check here for news in English about wave energy and offshore wind activities in Portugal. If you would like to obtain further information, please contact us on the following email: mail@wavec.org (Janete Gonçalves).

Surf town of peniche tests wave energy project
Peniche, the famous Portuguese town known for its Supertubos beach, will be producing energy from the waves in the beginning of spring. It has been named the WaveRoller power plant
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Portuguese group set to benefit from €9m EU marine renewables fund (Marinet Consortium, 09/12/2011)
‘MaRINET’ initiative opens access to marine testing sites across Europe
The Portuguese marine renewable energy sector is set to benefit from a new €9m EU-funded initiative to provide access to test facilities in specialist marine renewable energy centres across Europe.  ‘MaRINET’ (Marine Renewables Infrastructure Network) offers periods of marine renewable energy testing at these centres at no cost to participants through funding from the European Commission.  Wave Energy Centre is key partner in this initiative.
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First WindFloat Successfully Deployed Offshore (Principle Power, 30/11/2011)
Amsterdam, NL (EWEA Offshore 2011) - November 30th, 2011 - Principle Power, Inc. (Principle Power) and Energias de Portugal (EDP) are pleased to announce the successful offshore deployment of a full-scale 2-megawatt (MW) WindFloat off the coast of Aguçadoura, Portugal.
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Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO7GXLR4YUo

Position Paper: Towards European industrial leadership in Ocean Energy in 2020 (Department of Energy and Climate Change, 24/11/2011)
This Position Paper has been produced by the European Ocean Energy Association, in close collaboration with participants in a newly created Member States Ocean Energy Interest Group.
The following Member States are members of this Ocean Energy Interest Group and support this position paper: Belgium with longer term interests; Denmark; France; Ireland; Netherlands with longer term interests; Norway; Portugal; Spain and the UK. Furthermore, this position paper is supported by the British-Irish Council and its member administrations and the European Ocean Energy Association.
Clique here to download the document.

Favorable winds for Pilot Power Plant First WaveRollers soon to leave the assembly line – (Surge Project Newsletter, October 2011)
Final testing and assembly of the first 3 x 100 kW WaveRoller power plant are underway at a subcontractor site in Kotka, Finland. After "wave breaking" test results from the Power Take Off system earlier, the crew now wants to eliminate any possible problems that might arise during and after deployment.
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Ocean Energy Implementing Agreement Bulletin (October 2011)
The Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems (OES) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) will complete its second five-year mandate on 28 February 2012. Thus a request for a new 5-year term was submitted to the IEA Committee on Energy Research and Technology (CERT) during 2011. The Strategic Plan for OES for 2012-2017 has been developed according to the founding objectives of the IEA and the need for a globally accepted Vision for Ocean Energy.
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Windfloat could create 8,000 jobs (AICEP Portugal / Portugal Offer, 26/09/2011)
The WindFloat structure is being assembled at Lisnave shipyards in Setúbal, and will be submerged off the Povoa de Varzim coast. The aim is to help revive various sectors in the national economy" such as the "construction and marine repair industry," and open up a prospect of thousands of new jobs. At a European level, the industry is forecast to create 100,000 jobs in the medium term. Once installed offshore  the "WindFloat" will be "monitored" for two years, "to track its performance," João Gonçalo Maciel said.
From 2014, EDP, which has secured marketing rights for the technology, aims to build a mini-park of five units, as a larger scale proof of concept.  Two years thereafter the plan is to market WindFloat  commercially. The EDP investment is made in a partnership with the Principle Power Inc. of the US, the Vestas a Danish turbine manufacturer, A. Silva Matos SA  a Portuguese engineering firm, and InovCapital S.A the state owned venture capital fund.
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Sowfia workshop "Real Experiences To-date In Wave Energy Development" (Sowfia Network, 22/09/2011)
The first Sowfia workshop "Real Experiences To-date In Wave Energy Development" will take place on 27th October, Manchester, UK.
The workshop is free of charge. Check here for more information.
Information about the RenewableUK 2011 Annual Conference and Exhibition:
http://www.renewable-uk.com/events/annual-conference/side_events.html

WavEC Annual Seminar - Offshore Renewable Energy and its Potential for the Outermost Regions (WavEC, 15/09/2011)
The Wave Energy Centre’s annual event took place on the 15th of September 2011 at Enotel Lido - Conference Resort & Spa, Madeira Island, Portugal, together with a series of other international events in the scope of our projects.
The seminar, entitled Offshore Renewable Energy and its Potential for the Outermost Regions aimed to focus on national and international projects in the offshore field, and also presented the economical sea use with relevance for ultra-peripheral regions.
Presentations are available for download - click here.