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Seminar 2021
Portugal and Japan: Major Developments in Offshore Renewable Energies
WavEC Seminar 2021 | November 30th 2021 - Virtual
WavEC Offshore Renewables organised its annual Seminar 2021 in collaboration with the Embassy of Japan in Portugal.
The event took place online, on the morning of the 30th of November and provided its participants with a unique opportunity to explore new collaboration opportunities in business and research in marine renewable energies and other blue economy sectors.
OPENING SESSION
08:30-09:00 GMT/UTC
- António Sarmento, President of the Board of WavEC Offshore Renewables
- Shigeru Ushio, Ambassador of Japan to Portugal
- Ricardo Serrão Santos, Minister of the Sea
SESSION I – Prospects on floating offshore wind in the coming years
09:00-10:15 GMT/UTC
Chair: João Maciel, Board Member EDP NEW Centre for New Energy Technologies
- Kiyohiko Ko, Managing Director, Future Energy Consultant, Perspectives on Floating Offshore Wind in Japan
- Hisafumi Manabe, President & CEO, Marubeni Offshore Wind Development Corporation, Offshore Wind project at Akita, Japan
- José Pinheiro, Country Manager for Southern Europe at Ocean Winds, Windfloat project in Portugal
- David Edwards, Senior Business Development Manager Japan and Asia, Principle Power, Prospects on Floating Offshore Wind
SESSION II – Ports and the industrialisation of marine renewable energies
10:15-11:30 GMT/UTC
Chair: Ricardo Morgado, Chief Commercial Officer, ASM Industries
- Ei-ichi Kobayashi, Development Coordinator, Nagasaki Marine Industry Cluster Promotion Association, Asia Marine Energy Centre in Nagasaki
- Kota Miyagawa, Chief, Business Development Department, Kyuden Mirai Energy CO., INC., Japan’s first large scale tidal power project
- Miguel Silva, General Manager Portugal, CorPower Ocean, CorPower Ocean's flagship HiWave-5 project in Portugal
- Matias Sigal, Business Development, Eco Wave Power, Eco Wave Power project with APDL
SESSION III – Other marine business opportunities
11:30-12:45 GMT/UTC
Chair: Luísa Carrilho da Graça, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Abogados
- Nuno Vaz, Business Manager, TechnipFMC, Offshore large-scale hydrogen production and distribution
- Hiroshi Kimura, Deputy GM, Hydrogen Division, Iwatani Corporation, Hydrogen Storage Technology and Hydrogen Station
- José Chambel Leitão, Managing Partner, Hidromod, ICT tools for management of ocean resources
- Ken Takagi, Professor, Department of Ocean Technology at Tokyo University, Research activities on ocean technologies
- Francisco Correia da Fonseca, Offshore Operations Specialist, WavEC Offshore Renewables, EU-SCORES: Demonstrating the potential of multi-source offshore renewable energy farms
CLOSING SESSION
12:45-13:00 GMT/UTC
- João Galamba, Deputy Minister and Secretary of State of Energy
- Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education
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