MEGAWIND HAS PRESENTED AT THE IX MARINE ENERGY CONFERENCE

The IX Marine Energy Conference, organised by JRL-ORE and Euskampus Fundazioa with the collaboration of UPV/EHU, TECNALIA and BCAM, took place on Wednesday 21st June, where the project coordinator had the opportunity to present the project.

Marcos Suarez from the Basque Energy Cluster made a preliminary presentation giving an overview of the trends and outlook of the offshore wind sector and then, highlighted the potential of the offshore wind sector in the Basque Country, showing key figures such as the number of companies, employment and the number of platforms.

After this contextualisation, Jon Mendiola from ERREKA presented MEGAWIND, the HAZITEK project focused on providing solutions to the challenges of the large wind turbines of the future.

In addition to explaining what the project consists of, Jon showed the first results that have been obtained during the first year of the project.