NEWS ARCHIVE

A summary of WESE press coverage and other features are outlined below.

Press releases

Press release 1 - Distributed on 20th February 2019 to announce the project launch and website and present the objectives of the project throughout its duration (from November 2018 until October 2021).
Press release 2 - Distributed on 5th June 2019 to communicate another milestone of the project: launching of environmental monitoring activities around wave energy converters in Bimep and Mutriku.
Press release 3 - Distributed on 9th March 2020 to announce the launch of the WESE & SEA Wave MARENDATA platform for ocean energy data sharing.

Articles and presentations by project partners

OES-Environmental & ORJIP International Forum. Presentation of the first WESE project results on devices underwater acoustic monitoring. Tethys website. 

Article in Tethys website (OES-ENV) - The European Union’s Efforts in Understanding Environmental Impacts of Wave Energy Devices. The Tethys story can be found here.

World Maritime Week - Juan Bald, the WESE project Coordinator, attended this event in Bilbao with a poster presentation on the project main objectives. The presentation took place in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre on the 13th February 2019.

V Marine Energy Conference - The WESE project was presented by Juan Bald, the project coordinator, in this Conference that took place in Bilbao on the 13th November 2018. The poster can be found here.

Media

SEA Wave and WESE launch ocean energy data platform, Renewable Energy Magazine, 09/03/2020.
Wese Project Completes BiMEP and Mutriku Sites Monitoring, Energy biz, 07/06/2019.
​Understanding the Environmental Effects of Ocean Energy: Experiences and Challenges and the Role of the WESE project, SETIS Magazine, European Commission, No.20 - May 2019
Wese Project Addresses Wave Energy Marine Environmental Concerns, Energy biz, 20/02/2019.
Two new projects to share €1.5 million from the EMFF, EASME, 25/06/2018.

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AZTI's monitoring vessel (Credits AZTI). 

Hydrophones used By WavEC in acoustic monitoring at Peniche test site (Credits WavEC).