Icoe 2010

Programme

Time	Wednesday, 6 October
8:00	Registration & Welcome coffee at the exhibition area (registration opens the day before)
9:00	OPENING SESSION European Commission IBERDROLA Basque Government Spanish Government
10:30	Coffee – break
11:00	VISION PANEL: Chair: Henry Jeffrey, the University of Edinburgh Ocean Energy Systems Implementing Agreement: An International Vision for Ocean Energy and a Review. European Ocean Energy Road Map - A Path to the European Industrial Initiative Basque Country (Spain). A Stratetic Commitment to Leading the Wave Energy Sector.
12:30	Lunch at the exhibition area 12:30 – 13:30 Poster session 1 13:30 – 14:30 Poster session 2
14:30	Moving to the industrial scale “Economics and cost reduction”	Ocean Renewable Energy Development “OTEC and Salinity gradient”	Key research topics “Resource assessment and tools”
16:00	Coffee – break
16:30	Moving to the industrial scale “Planning, permitting and public acceptability”	Ocean Renewable Energy Development “Multipurpose offshore renewable energy platforms”	Key research topics “Investigation on array performance”
18:00	End of the first day of conference
19:00	Conference Reception

Time	Thursday, 7 October
8:00	Canada: also an emerging ocean energy superpower
9:00	Moving to industrial scale “Standardisation”	Ocean Renewable Energy Development “Wave Energy Converters”	Key research topics “Tidal Energy: modelling, concepts and challenges”
10:30	Coffee – break
11:00	Moving to industrial scale “Removing barriers and Building competences”	Ocean Renewable Energy Development “Tidal Energy Converters”	Key research topics “Wave Power: concepts, components and characterisation”
12:30	Lunch at the exhibition area 12:30 – 13:30 Poster session 3 13:30 – 14:30 Poster session 4
14:30	Moving to industrial scale “Accelerating progress”	Ocean Renewable Energy Development “Grid integration”	Key research topics “Environmental issues”
16:00	Coffee – break
16:30	Moving to industrial scale “Lessons learnt from other sectors”	Ocean Renewable Energy Development “Test Facilities: latest advances”	Key research topics “Performance assessment”
18:00	End of the second day of conference
20:00	Conference Dinner

Time	Friday, 8 October
9:00	Moving to industrial scale: "Policies and National Initiatives"
10:30	Coffee – break
11:00	Round table: supply chain, utility, regulator, technology developer and finance
12:00	Poster award & Closing session (conference summary)
13:00	Closing lunch at the exhibition area

Summary: 5 plenary sessions 18 parallel sessions divided into 3 tracks, over 90 oral presentations 4 visual sessions (about 90 posters).

ICOE 2010 Bilbao

• 6-7-8 October 2010

• BEC! Bilbao Exhibition Centre

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