Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance

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NSR is one of the most successful economical regions of Europe. NSR is continuously growing, and thereby dealing with the effects of climate change. NSR is using its most valuable resource “The North Sea” for the deployment of wind parks as one of the solutions to fight climate change. But why are we not using this resource more efficient?With its high tides and powerful waves, the North Sea acts as a vital and infinite source of renewable energy. The ocean energy sector is leveraging this power by developing technologies able to generate energy from those tides and waves. Despite the enormous potential of ocean energy, the sector is struggling to efficiently scale up. This is caused by the lack of transnational collaboration within the sector and limited engagement of relevant stakeholder groups.OESA tackles this problem by realising a transnational Pilot Accelerator Programme. OESA partners work together to develop new services to support accelerated deployment of ocean energy parks in NSR. This is the first project building an alliance between the Nordics and North-West Europe. It already realises the deployment of 5 pilots during the project, that will increase the installed ocean energy capacity with 30% and reduce 100.000 tonnes CO2 emission. Besides that, OESA engages policy makers, offshore companies and investors to realise even more deployments. OESA builds the cornerstones of a sector that can power the NSR’s renewable energy mix to build a sustainable future.

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