The EU-OEA unites the broad interests of the European ocean energy industry into a single, focused and independent voice. Together with its regional and industry partners, the EU-OEA and its members address issues of relevance to the industry with decision-makers including regulators, legislators, and policymakers.
The EU-OEA supports a number of initiatives in various areas of interest to the association and its members (e.g. Legislation, Funding, Regulatory, Government Relations), ensuring that members are involved in key legislation concerning ocean energy technologies, and providing EU-OEA members with a voice in important discussions in which they are stakeholders.
Policy News:
300 million€ allowances to be set aside of the New Entrants Reserve (NER) of the revised Emission Trading Scheme (ETS 2013-2020)
In December last year the European Parliament and the Council agreed upon the revised Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) for the period from 2013 onwards. It provides for 300 million allowances to be set aside from the New Entrants Reserve (NER300) to help finance innovative renewable energy projects and CCS. Along with other RE associations and through the European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), the EU-OEA calls on the Commission and the Member States to set criteria in order to make the majority of the NER300 available for a wide-range of innovative renewable energy projects.
14 million£ investment in future of Scottish marine renewables
On June 18th the Scottish government announced its support of £14 million investment for energy-related skills development and research projects in Scotland, based at the North Highland College UHI in Thurso. Funders include the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), UHI, the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands; the Scottish Funding Council (SFC); the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) and Highland Council.
3B wins JEC Innovation award at the JEC Composites show in Paris for the application of Advantex Boron-free E-glass fibre and HiPer-Tex high-performance glass fibre on Fred Olsen's wave energy device, the FO³. Press release
Events
EC Projects
OWEMES 2009 -- Offshore Wind and Other Marine Renewable Energies in the Mediterranean and European Seas, 21-23 May 2009, Brindisi, Italy.
Registration and brochure download are available on the website.
The project leaflet of the Coordinated Action on Ocean Energy is available for download from the project page.
The work of the European Ocean Energy Association is partly funded under the 6th Framework Programme.