NEWS ARCHIVE

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

WEC-ERA Tool
Ecological Risk Assessment tool for Wave Energy Converters
This is a open access tool for managers, decision makers and industry when assessing the suitability of Wave Energy Converters projects, in terms of the potential impacts that they can cause. The tool is based on the Ecosystem Risk Assessment of three different Wave Energy Converters technologies during their life-cycle stages (from installation to operation and decommissioning).

Project Videos

WESE project video footages of the Seafloor Integrity monitoring. The videos were recorded close to MARMOK-A-5 in BiMEP test site.
Marmok A 5 Umbilical cable in BiMEP
Marmok A 5 F1 mooring in BiMEP
Connector in BiMEP
Marmok-A-5 B1 mooring in BiMEP
Marmok A 5 F1 mooring in BiMEP
Marmok A 5 F2 mooring in BiMEP
Marmok A 5 Umbilical cable in BiMEP
Marmok A 5 B2 mooring in BiMEP
Marmok A 5 B2 mooring in BiMEP

WESE project presents video footages of the Seafloor Integrity monitoring.  The videos were recorded close to the WaveRoller foundation and flap, the electrical cable and metallic/synthetic moorings in Peniche, Portugal. Observe natural habitats (sandy bottom, rocky bottom, reefs), several marine organisms (fish, algae, invertebrates), and biofouling growing on the artificial structures. 
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 1 (GoPro camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 1 (Onboard camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 2 (GoPro camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 2 (Onboard camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 3 (GoPro camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 3 (Onboard camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 4 (GoPro camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 4 (Onboard camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 5 (GoPro camera)
WESE Seafloor Integrity_WaveRoller_Transect 5 (Onboard camera)

Project Deliverables
Check the new project deliverables on our website: Data Validation, Data Gathering, Data Services and DSTs for MSP development.

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.
Press release 4 - Distributed on 22nd December 2020 to announce the monitoring campaigns in Peniche, Portugal. 
Press release 5 - Distributed on 20th July 2021 to announce WESE's final event at ETWEC2021. 
Press release 6 - Distributed on 7th July 2021 to announce WESE's workshop at ETWEC2021. 

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Articles and presentations by project partners

WESE FINAL EVENT
The final event of the project aimed at sharing and discussing the results of the projects with key relevant stakeholders in the field of wave energies, specifically scientists, developers, and policy and decision makers.  
Two events were organized; the first event was organized in the context of the EWTEC 2021 (European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference) on the 06/09/2021 and the second event was an online event organized independently on the 28/10/2021.

Webinar: ETIP Ocean 2 project about Environmental Toolkits for Consenting Ocean Energy, on the 13/12/2021.

Event: WESE presentation at Ocean Energy Europe on the 07/12/2021. 

Paper: Galparsoro, I., M. Korta, I. Subirana, Á. Borja, I. Menchaca, O. Solaun, I. Muxika, G. Iglesias, J. Bald, 2021. A new framework and tool for ecological risk assessment of wave energy converters projects. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 151: 111539. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111539

Webinar:  “Sea Journeys II”, a marine biology congress organized by the AEICBAS (Student Association of Abel Salazar Biomedical Science Institute, University of Porto), 19/03/2021. Presentation by WavEC about environmental monitoring in the context of MRE projects in Portugal.

Course: Understanding the Environment (Entiende El Medio Ambiente), organized by the Faculties of Science, and Economics and Business Administration of the University of Navarra in Pamplona (Spain), 22/02/2021. Presentation by AZTI about the environmental challenges of Marine Renewables and how WESE project have set out a framework for overcoming these challenges. 

Webinar: Speeding up consenting processes - Best practices for ocean energy, ETIP Ocean 2, 15/12/2020. WESE activities presented at the ETIP Ocean webinar.

Sectoral Forum on Wave Energy of the  Basque Energy Cluster. Presentation by IDOM-OCEANTEC, EVE, BiMEP, TECNALIA, AZTI and the Asociación Clúster de Energía on the 5th of November 2020. Information of the event here.

Webinar: Solutions for environmental monitoring, ETIP Ocean 2 project, 19/05/2020. WESE presented the acoustic samples recorded in BIMEP as an example of underwater noise radiated by wave energy projects. More information of the event and the video presentation here.

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.

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Media

WESE rolls out ecological risk assessment tool for wave energy, Offshore Energy, 13/10/2021
EU Projects tackle barriers to wave energy development, Maritime Journal, 03/02/2021
WESE project carries out WaveRoller monitoring off Portugal, Offshore Energy, 22/12/2020
Ocean power: EU funding promotes environmental monitoring of wave energy in Southern Europe , EC, 26/11/2020
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
Impactos Ambientais da tecnologia de Aproveitamento da Energia Oceânica, Revista de Marinha, No.1009, May/Jun 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).