Wave Energy Planning and Marketing (WAVEPLAM)

To develop tools, establish methods and standards, and create conditions to speed up introduction of ocean energy into the European renewable energy market, tackling in advance non-technological barriers and conditioning factors that may arise when these technologies are available for large-scale development. Despite the fact that in these last years there has been an increase of wave energy research, it is necessary to gather all efforts in order to create a European ocean energy market. The WAVEPLAM project will contribute to the creation of this market through diverse actions. The first action was to increase the knowledge of decision makers and investors about the technology state of the art, the different non-technological barriers and the best practices to overcome them and build the proper tools to create the conditions to speed up the interest and the investment in wave energy projects among target groups.

One of WAVEPLAM’s expected results was to guarantee communication and transfer of knowledge with relevant agents and institutions throughout Europe and facilitate the creation of networks through projects. This way, through its dissemination actions, WAVEPLAM aimed to develop tools, create standard methods and the necessary conditions to speed up introduction of ocean energy into the European renewable energy market.