Location: Limerick
Event Website: http://www.energyireland.ie/events/oceanEnergy/
Start Date: 12/04/2011
End Date: 12/04/2011
Developing Europe's Ocean Energy Hub: Securing Ireland's Energy Future? The west coast of Ireland is acknowledged as being home to some of the world's best wind and wave resources, which have the potential to play a significant and important role in meeting Ireland's impending renewable energy targets, including a target of 500MW ocean energy to be installed by 2020. This conference will examine the potential for the development of ocean energy in the Irish context and will look at the suitability of the Shannon Estuary / west coast region as an ocean energy hub. Also discussed will be the extent to which ocean energy can be the solution, or at least part of it, to Ireland's security of supply concerns.