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:
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.