MRIA Forum 2019 Presentations
These are the almost all of the presentations made at the Forum. A handful are not available for a variety of reasons e.g confidentiality
Introduction Chair: Peter Coyle
Addresses by Dr Val Cummins on behalf of sponsors EirWind and ProtoAtlantic and Eamonn Confrey, Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Session 1: 'What are the key developments concerning the industry?' Chair: Simon de Pietro
Remi Gruet, Ocean Energy Europe
Note that Sue Barr, UK Marine Energy Council, was snow bound in the UK and her presentation was given orally by the Session Chair, Simon de Pietro
Session 2 'Technology and project progress' Chair: Sam McCloskey
Simply Blue Energy, Sam Roch Perks
Wave Energy Scotland, Tim Hurst
5 Minute Snapshots:
- Exceedence's experience of Crowdfunding, Ray Alcorn
- Saitec Offhshore, David Carrascora
- Arup's expectations for marine renewables, Julie Ascoop
- Coastwatch's views, Karen Dubsky
- Dublin Offshore Consultants, Darren Hayes
- Nature and marine renewables, Simon Berrow
- Skill needs of marine renewables, Cormac Gebruers
- Waveforce Energy, John Miller
- Marine Spatial Planning, Phillip Nugent
- MRIA's views on MSP, Anne Marie O'Hagan
- SmartBay, John Breslin
- Marine Energy Alliance, Iris Hoefnagels
- LiR and MaREI, Jimmy Murphy
- Gkinetic moving forward, Vincent McCormack
Closing remarks by Declan Meally, Head of Emerging Sectors, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
Session 3: 'MaREI - a centre of excellence for marine and renewable energy' Chair: Jimmy Murphy
Note that project titles have been abbreviated. Presentations to follow.
MEA Project, Gordon Dalton
Tidal energy research at MaREI, Stephen Nash
Vision for MRE research, Gregorio Iglesias
Optimisation of WEC, Li Guo Wang and Matthieu Ancellin
Regulatory frameworks comparison, Zoe O'Hanlon
General Discussion led by Jimmy Murphy
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