Associates

A. Silva Matos - Metalomecânica, SA.
A company founded in 1980 in Sever do Vouga, Aveiro district. The company operates in the metallic boiler maker area, specifically in the production of cylindrical and spherical gas storage tanks, tanks for fuel, cryogenic tanks, cisterns and containers to transport gas and chemical products, reactors and interchangers, metallic structures, towers for wind farms and all kinds of welded constructions. NP EN ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OSHA 18000 certified company.

Consulmar - Projectistas e Consultores Limitada (Project planning and consulting)
Consulmar is a large engineering consulting company being responsible for a number of coastal and maritime engineering projects in Portugal and abroad. Presently, Consulmar is involved in a proposal for an OWC integration in a breakwater head in Northern Portugal.

EDA - Electricidade dos Açores (Electricity of the Azores)
The regional utility of the 9 Azores Islands is, together with EDP, the owner of the OWC pilot plant on the Island of Pico/Azores.

EDP Energias de Portugal (Electricity of Portugal)
The internationally active EDP group is responsible for the large majority of electricity production and distribution in Portugal. Apart from its former involvement in the Pico OWC, EDP is willing to support ocean wave energy development. Other projects in which EDP is involved are Acquaboy and the OWC integration in a breakwater head in Northern Portugal.

Efacec Engenharia SA (Electronic Engineering)
The Efacec group is a large Portuguese supplier and developer of electrical and electronic equipment for a large range of applications, such as energy, transport, telecommunications, logistics, electronics, environment, industry and services. Efacec has been responsible for the development and maintenance of the electromechanical equipment of the OWC pilot plant on the Island of Pico/Azores.

Companhia Energia Oceânica, S.A. (Ocean Energy Company)

Galp Energia
Portuguese based company with a leading position in the domestic markets for oil products and natural gas and a strong upstream presence in exploration and production, primarily in angola and brazil.
Galp energia also has oil marketing activities in Spain and in the African continent, namely in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola.
The Group activities comprise the following three business areas: Exploration and Production; Refining and Marketing and Gas&Power.
The E&P business segment holds its upstream assets and is responsible for supervising and carrying out all activities related to the exploration, development and production of hydrocarbons.
The refining & marketing business comprises all its refining, supply and logistics activities.
The Gas & Power business comprises all its supply, business and logistics activities of natural gas and electric and termic power.

Generg Sociedade Gestora de Participações Sociais, SA
The mission of the Generg company is the construction and exploitation of renewable energy plants.

GWH - ENERGIA DAS ONDAS, UNIPESSOAL, LDA
GWH – Energia das Ondas, UNIPESSOAL, Ltd. is a company formed by the consortium of several companies: Ecoprogresso - Consultores em Ambiente e Desenvolvimento, SA, FOMENTINVEST ENERGIA, SGPS, SA and New Energy Fund.
Strategic objectives of the company:
1 - Being a world reference in Wave Energy area;
2 - Develop Critical factors of success and differentiation that can create competitive advantages for GWH ;
3 - Achieving high market share, nationally and internationally, in the production of electricity from waves or in transfer of technology;
4 – To define the Organization in a continuous way in order to achieve levels of competitive productivity and effectiveness.

Irmãos Cavaco, SA
Large contractor with particular experience of coastal structures.

INETI - Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação (National Institute of Industrial Engineering and Inovation)
A Research, Demonstration and Technological Development organisation, integrated within the Ministry of the Economy, whose vocation is to strengthen the potential of Innovation and quality in the business community and the national technological system, in order to foster Knowledge towards sustainable economic growth. INETI has been active in wave energy research for more than twenty years, coordinated the development of WERATLAS/Eurropean Wave Energy Atlas and launched the Implementation Agreement on Ocean Energy Systems within the International Energy Agency.

IST - Instituto Superior Técnico
The largest and oldest Portuguese Faculty of Technology, integrated in the Technical University of Lisbon. The wave energy group at IST was heavily involved in the early phase of the Pico plant and the project co-ordinator of the EC-funded project concerning its design and construction. Particular expertise at IST are Wells Turbine technology, analytical and numerical mathematical modelling and laboratoring testing of wave energy devices. IST gas also been involved in LIMPET and AWS pilot plants. Prof. António Sarmento from the wave energy group at IST was the driving force towards the Wave Energy Centre's establishment, and has been its director from the beginning.

Kymaner, Tecnologias Energéticas Lda.
Kymaner was founded to develop Wave Energy in Portugal. Its team has experience in this field for over 30 years coming from different areas such as consultancy, technology , university and engineering and thus constituting an unique group in the sector of wave energy in our country.
Competences:
- Field Management : Coordination of the project and licensing;
- Mechanical project: Conception, detail and structural analysis;
- Development of a client network: metallic construction, installation, tests, operation and maintenance.

LAMTec
Created by the University of the Azores and the City Hall of Praia da Vitória. Researchers of diverse areas, such as Physics, Chemistry and Mechanical and Electro-technical Engineering, are willing to promote the investigation, development and training on the environment field and associated technologies.

Martifer
Established in 2004, Martifer Energia had as initial objective the entry in the renewable energy field by manufacturing steel towers and erecting turn-key wind farms. In 2004 a R&D group was formed in order to develop a project focused on the conversion of wave energy into electrical energy.