Speakers

Several international high level experts and representatives of Portuguese key players provide insight into technology development, project development, test zone undertakings, as well as constraints and synergies of future commercial-scale wave energy deployment.

Eoin Sweeney, Head of Department of SEI - Sustainable Energy Ireland's Ocean Energy Development Unit

Eoin has a Masters degree in Economics from University College Dublin. His work has focussed on Natural Resource development. He managed the Marine Science &Technology  programme in the National Board for Science and Technology and initiated InnovaWood, a knowledge transfer network for the Forest and Wood Industries throughout Europe. Until recently, he managed the Discovery Programme, a major component of SeaChange, the Strategic Programme for the marine sector 2007-2013, within the Marine Institute. 

He is currently Head of the newly established Ocean Energy Development Unit, created to implement the government’s  strategy to accelerate development of ocean energy. The Unit is located in Sustainable Energy Ireland. In this role he is responsible for initiating and co-ordinating a wide-ranging  suite of measures– developing research and test facilities, funding industry research and prototyping, developing a planning and permitting framework and commissioning expert and consultant reports, e.g. on OE engineering infrastructure and  macroeconomics.

Hakim Mouslim, Project Engineer of Ecole Centrale de Nantes - CNRS
 
Activities : "SEM-REV" Wave Energy Full Scale Test Site, Offshore Renewable Energy projects (Wave, Wind & Tidal), Research & Development.
Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides)
Ecole Centrale de Nantes - CNRS

João Duarte, Responsible for the Sedimentology Section of the Marine Geology Division of the Hydrographic Institute – Portuguese Navy.

Marine Geologist responsible for the Sedimentology Section of the Marine Geology Division of the Hydrographic Institute – Portuguese Navy.  With more than 12 years of experience characterizing the marine environment, he has been leading studies in the area of marine sedimentology, namely the cartography of superficial sediments at the continental and insular platforms, and studies of specific characteristic, like the ones regarding the anchoring of infrastructures at deep see that imply the collecting of vertical samples of sediments and characterization of the sediment column, for aspects regarding the depositional architecture and also the respective associated dynamics.

Jochen Bard, Head of Energy Conversion Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology (ISET)

Currently he is vice chairman and German alternate member in the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems (IA-OES) and member of the German mirror group of the technical committee TC 114, Marine Energy – Wave and Tidal Energy Converters of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Since the year 2000 he is responsible for the areas small hydropower, ocean energy systems and hydrogen and fuel cell technologies as head of energy conversion in the division energy conversion and control engineering of the Institute for Solar Energy Supply Technology (ISET) in Kassel, Germany.

Since 1996 he works as project leader for technology development in ocean energy technologies such as marine current turbines and more recently wave energy devices for full scale pilot and demonstration projects mainly in Europe with a focus on modeling of resources and device performance, development and implementation of power take-off and control engineering solutions. More generic work includes resource assessments, standardization activities, contributions to research networks and development of scenarios. He lectures in Bachelor and Master Courses in renewable energies at the university. From 2006 to 2007 he worked as research analyst for the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Jochen Bard holds a diploma in physics from Karlsruhe University.

                                   
João Maciel – Head of Technology Development

Holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Lisbon Technical University. He has an MBA and a post-graduate diploma in Project Management, both from the Portuguese Catholic University. He is also a PMP. Presently, João Maciel heads EDP Inovação’s Technological Development Department. He has worked at the R&D department of Labelec – EDP from 2001 to 2006 and has been involved in several R&D Projects regarding Renewable Energies, Micro-cogeneration and the Distribution Network, mostly at the levels of Project Management and Feasibility Analysis.

Ken Street, Orecon Business Development Director

Ken joined Orecon in May 2008 as Business Development Director after 33 years spent in various positions within the marine and industrial sectors.  After leaving school he studied marine engineering at Glasgow College of Nautical Studies and spent 12 years as an engineering officer in the merchant navy responsible for the operation and maintenance of propulsion and deck machinery. In 1988 he joined the marine division of GEC Electrical Projects (now Converteam), as a project manager. Latterly heading up Converteam’s marine renewables section but previous business areas include - offshore marine, naval, railways, metals, mining and rotating machine development with roles in sales, business development, project management and technical department manager.

He gained a wide marine experience from his years at sea and involvement in numerous offshore and naval electric power and propulsion projects which include some notable ones such as the replacement of the QE2’s steam plant with electric propulsion; the first dynamically positioned oil production vessel; the Royal Navy’s first all electric vessels HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark; the development of the advanced propulsion motor for the Type 45 destroyers. Added to this are other major projects which have contributed to his knowledge base - the Hong Kong and Ankara metro extensions; large scale permanent magnet and superconducting machine projects; electrical generation and control systems for marine, wind, wave and tidal power. 

Lars G. Golmen, Senior research scientist of NIVA, Norwegian Institute for Water Research

Lars G. Golmen holds a “Cand-real” (PhD equivalent) degree in Geophysics, physical oceanography, from the University of Bergen, 1983. His university degree contains full year courses or more in mathematics, physics and chemistry. After graduation he worked 3 years as a research scientist at the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen. He began working at NIVA in 1986 and he has served there as division manager (1992-1997) and research manager for oceanography (1994-1999) as well as senior research scientist in physical oceanography.

Fields of interest cover renewable energies from the ocean, polar oceanography and ice formation, dynamics of deep lakes and fjords and water quality and water exchange of fjords and coastal waters.

Recent occupations include Technical secretary of EGOS; a European network on met-data collection and dissemination from drifting buoys in the North Atlantic. 1997-2003: Norwegian coordinator in the international CTI project on CO2 ocean storage. Present project engagements include project manager at NIVA as partner to the EU NoE ‘CO2GEONET’ for safe sub-seabed storage of CO2, work to establish oil spill contingency in Sri Lanka and work to design new cooling  infrastructure at the Mongstad refinery and the Kårstø terminal for CO2 capture purposes. Golmen is one of the founders of the Runde environmental centre in Norway where he is undertaking ocean energy studies and device testing, also for Vattenfall. He is member of the IEA-OES committee on ocean renewables and environmental impact, and member of the EU-Ocean Energy Association.

Pedro Sarmento-Coelho,  President of AQUA.PT

Pedro Sarmento-Coelho is president of AQUA.PT and since 2008 he is CEO of the Zona Salgada Aquaculturas SA, driving force of the development of the aquaculture cluster in Portugal, integrated at the National Strategy for the Sea. Professionally he has always been connected to the transfer of university/company knowledge, working in different sectors, always as business developer. 

He started to work in energy, following computer science and is active now in aquaculture. He obtained his degree in Mechanical Engineering in the termodynamics area by the Instituto Superior Técnico and masters by University Lusíada de Lisboa with thesis: Networking Impact on Startups.

Sean O'Neill, Co-Founder & President of Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition

Sean O’Neill is co-founder and president of the Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition.  He is also founder and principal of Symmetrix Public Relations & Communication Strategies where he serves the non-profit, energy, and human resources industries.  Prior to founding Symmetrix, Mr. O’Neill served as Director of Public Affairs for U.S. Generating Company from 1993 to 2001. He has directed communications and public affairs programs in eighteen states supporting the development of over 8,000 megawatts of electric power generation. He has served numerous non-profit and governmental organizations in developing programs to encourage the development of ocean renewable technologies, electric industry deregulation, water conservation, municipal solid waste management and public safety contributing to broad public policy changes at state and federal levels, increased water and energy conservation, recycling, and seat belt use. 

He has a Masters in Public Communications from American University where he has served on the adjunct faculty and holds an A.B. degree in English from Columbia College in New York.

Tore Gulli, Project Director Fred. Olsen Ltd.

Tore Gulli - Project Director Fred. Olsen Ltd: Director and responsible for the marine renewables activities within Fred. Olsen for the last 7 years; previous managerial position held within the design engineering, recycling, management consulting and the oil and gas industries.

Work experience from 15 different countries. Holds a MSc degree in industrial economics from the University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Moderators

 SESSION I - PRESENT TECHNOLOGY AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

Antonio Falcão, Professor Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)

Antonio Falcão is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK, and has been active in R&D in ocean wave energy for more than 30 years, having published extensively in this field. He participated in a large number of projects sponsored and funded by the European Commission in the area of wave energy, and was the overall coordinator of the European projects that, in the 1990s, funded the studies, design and construction of the 400 kW European Wave Energy Pilot Plant on Pico Island, Azores.

He is presently an Executive Committee Member of the Implementing Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems of the International Energy Agency, an Associate Editor of Ocean Engineering (Elsevier) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering.

 SESSION II - TEST ZONES

Rui Barros, CEO Companhia Energia Oceânica

Rui Barros has a degree in Mechanic Engineering obtained at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (Engineering Faculty of University of Porto - FEUP).
He always worked in the energy area, as a user and also as a promoter/producer and in research - solar thermic during the 80’s (research), industrial user during the 80’s/90’s and promoter/producer in the following years: of cogeneration during the 90’s, wind from 99 to 2003 and wave energy in the last 6 years.
He is responsible for the development of the Aguçadoura Wave Park.

 SESSION III - FASE COMERCIAL: CONSTRANGIMENTOS E SINERGIAS

                                     Ana Estanqueiro, Director of the Wind and Ocean Energy Research Unit of INETI

Ana Estanqueiro was born in Coimbra in 1963. She received her electrical engineer degree from the Technical University of Lisbon (TUL) in 1986 where she also did her M.Sc and PhD. in mechanical engineering, respectively in 1991 and 1997. She works as a research scientist at INETI since 1987, being currently Director of the Wind and Ocean Energy Research Unit as well as associate professor at Universidade Lusiada. Her research interests are broad within wind energy with a focus on dynamic models of wind turbine benefiting from her electrical and mechanical background. She is currently chair of the International Energy Agency-IEA Wind Agreement and President of the PT IEP/IEC CTE 88 – Wind Turbines.

 SESSION IV - Round Table - PORTUGUESE SITUATION: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES
 

António Sá da Costa, President of APREN

António Sá da Costa is the President of APREN – Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and more recently head of the newly created Iberian Renewable Energy Centre in Badajoz, Spain. He is vice-president of the European Renewable Energy Federation, member of the Board of ESHA – European Small Hydro Association and Member of the Board of Directors of APE – Portuguese Energy Association. António Sá da Costa was the founder and head of Grupo Enersis from 1988 to 2008.

For more than 30 years Professor António Sá da Costa is a consultant engineer with special focus on studies and projects for small hydropower plants and environmental studies.

He is obtained his degree as civil engineer by the Technical University of Lisbon and PhD and Master of Science in Water Resources by MIT (USA). From 1984 to 1998 he was an associated Professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources Technical University of Lisbon and a member of the Hydraulics Department of this University from 1970 to 1998.