Ongoing Tasks
ONGOING TASKS
The OES is self-financed by the participants, either through financial and/or in-kind contributions. The participants themselves decide whether cost-sharing, task-sharing or a combination of both is most appropriate. Under the cost-sharing approach, each participant contributes to a common fund which can then be used to finance activities under the OES’s programme of work; under the task-sharing approach, each participant contributes resources in-kind.
The collaborative research work carried out by the OES are structured into specific projects/tasks, using two distinct approaches:
- Large projects/tasks - conducted by a group of countries interested in the topic to which only participants in the project contribute. Whenever three or more contracting parties support a proposal and sufficient funding is raised, a new research project can be established. One of the proposing parties will usually become the Operating Agent, accountable for delivery of the project and management of its dedicated budget. Participation by ExCo members in is voluntary and usually by cost-sharing, task-sharing or both – “Bottom-Up” approach.
- Small projects/tasks - of interest to all members, usually financed by the Common Fund, so all members are effectively contributing equally to these deliverables. Usually an interested volunteer member prepares the Terms of Reference of any proposed Task. The delegates are invited to bid to participate in this work; applications are evaluated and selected by a sub-committee of 3-4 voluntary ExCo members. The work is then undertaken by a group of members - both through cost- and task-sharing - and may include participation of external experts – “Top-Down” approach.
LIST OF TASKS
TASK 1 . Annex I Review, Exchange and Dissemination of Information on Ocean Energy Systems
Duration: From 2001 (continuous)
OA: WavEC (PORTUGAL)
Participants: All member countries (Compulsory membership)
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TASK 4 . Annex IV Assessment of Environmental Effects and Monitoring Efforts for Ocean Wave, Tidal and Current Energy Systems
Duration: Phase I: 2010 – 2013; Phase II: 2013 – 2016; Phase III: 2016 – 2019
OA: US Department of Energy (DOE)
Partners: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (US) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
Consultants: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US), assisted by Aquatera Ltd (UK) Participants: Canada, China, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States of America
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TASK 5 . Annex V Assessment of Environmental Effects and Monitoring Efforts for Ocean Wave, Tidal and Current Energy Systems
Duration: From 2012 (continuous)
OA: Phase I: National Renewable Energy Laboratory on behalf of DOE (USA) (2012 -2016); Phase II: OES Cabinet
(2017 -–…)
Participants: All member countries
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TASK 6 . Worldwide Web GIS Database for Ocean Energy
Duration: From 2013 (continuous)
OA: Fraunhofer Institute IWES (GERMANY)
Participants: All member countries
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TASK 7 . Cost of Energy Assessment for Wave, Tidal, and OTEC at an International Level
Duration: 2014 – 2015
OA: The University of Edinburgh (UK)
Partners: WavEC (PORTUGAL), Julia F. Chozas (DENMARK), Re Vision Consulting (USA);
Advisors: RAMBOLL Group A/S (DENMARK), FOT-K Consortium (NIGERIA)
Participants: All member countries
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TASK 8 . Consenting Processes for Ocean Energy on OES Member Countries
Duration: 2014 – 2017
OA: WavEC (PORTUGAL)
Consultant: MAREI (Ireland)
Participants: All member countries
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TASK 9 . International Ocean Energy Technology Roadmap
Duration: 2015 – 2017
OA: The University of Edinburgh (UK)
Partners: Nanyang Technological University (SINGAPORE), Cardinal Engineering (USA),
Power Projects Limited (NEW ZEALAND)
Participants: All member countries
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TASK 10 . Wave Energy Modelling Verification and Validation
Duration: Initiated in 2016 (expected to run during 3 years)
OA: Kim Nielsen (DENMARK)
Participants: Canada, China, Denmark, France, Ireland, Republic of Korea, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, UK and USA
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TASK 11 . Investigation and Evaluation of OTEC Resource
Duration: Initiated in 2016 (expected to run during 3 years)
OA: Yasuyuki Ikegami (JAPAN)
Working group leaders: Dengwen Xia (CHINA) and Keyyong Hong (REPUBLIC OF KOREA)
Participants: China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Singapore, India, France and The Netherlands
Details of the ongoing Tasks are available in Chapter 3. The completed projects - Task 2 “Development of Recommended Practices for Testing and Evaluating Ocean Energy Systems” and Task 3 “Integration of Ocean Energy Plants into Distribution and Transmission Electrical Grids” - are summarised in Appendix 4.
