As a part of the public information and education aspect of the Equimar project, a number of the partners discussed topical issues at the Bilbao meeting. Here, Andre Moura of WavEC and Jean-Francois Dhedin talk to Lesley Riddoch of Feisty about the current challenges facing marine energy today. Naturally enough, the issues are both environmental and economic concerns as the Equimar project works towards establishing its protocols.
Andre Croft of the Wave Energy Centre Portugal talks about how to measure impact of turbines on sea mammals. And he also talks about the survey about public knowledge of the coastal area where turbines are off the coast in Portugal.
Jean–Francois Dhedin EDF France says 75 energy devices are on display in the US. Question is which ones really work? How do investors like EDF decide? And he discusses developers fear of revealing problems.
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