Del 6 al 9 de noviembre se ha celebrado en Viena la European Utility Week (EUW 2018), la feria europea más importante del sector de las redes eléctricas inteligentes, también conocido como “Smart grids”, con la asistencia de más de 10.000 profesionales y expertos de todo el mundo.

El Ente Vasco de la Energía y el Cluster de Energía han organizado el stand “Wave Energy Basque Country” a través del Sponsor Gold y la participación conjunta de empresas vascas en la feria Ocean Energy Europe, durante los días 30 y 31 de octubre en Edimburgo. El pabellón vasco lo han conformado las empresas y entidades BIMEP, DITREL, IDOM-OCEANTEC, TECNALIA y ZUNIBAL.

(DEIA - Reportaje de I. Ugarte) Con objeto de abordar algunos de los retos energéticos del país y concretar las claves en el proceso hacia una suma mayor de renovables en el mix energético DEIA invitó a la ‘Mesa de Expertos Energías Renovables' a Iñigo Ansola, Director general del Ente Vasco de la Energía, Julio Castro, Director de Servicios Globales de Iberdrola Renovables, David Solé, Director de la División de Energía de Ingeteam Power Tecnology, Joseba Anasagasti, Director de Explotación y Operaciones de Giroa- Veolia y José Ignacio Hormaeche, Director del Cluster de Energía, que se encargó de moderar el encuentro.

The Basque Energy Cluster participated in the OGC 2018 via a joint stand with the leading Basque companies and entities in the sector and a talk on "Open Innovation and Collaborative Initiatives in ‘Oil & Gas Basque Industry’” given by José Ignacio Hormaeche.

In an exploratory mission funded by the European Commission within the framework of the ELBE project, the Basque Energy Cluster met the main agents responsible for the strategy and deployment of the emerging marine energies in the United States and Canada.

25 Basque companies participated in the WindEurope Hamburg Expo 2018, the most important event of the year for the international wind power sector, from 25th to 28th September. 12 of them had their own stand on the joint stand organised by the Basque Energy Cluster under the Wind Energy Basque Country brand. This edition is the prelude to WindEurope Bilbao, which will be held from 2nd to 4th April 2019 at the BEC and which will turn the city into the wind power world capital next year.

The latest issue of Wind Energy Network magazine, in partnership with the Basque Energy Cluster, has published a special report on the Basque wind power sector, focusing on the companies and organisations that make up the "Wind Energy Basque Country" brand (pages 56-57).

On 11th and 12th July 2018, the Basque Energy Cluster, in conjunction with Empresas Eléctricas A.G., the Chilean Electricity Companies Association, organised a reverse trade mission with the main Chilean utility companies, focused on monitoring, measurement and control systems. These included Enel Chile, Chilquinta, SAESA and CCGE, which visited diverse facilities of the electrical sector on the Zamudio Technology Park and attended a seminar with companies from the electric networks sector.

The lab is partly funded by the Basque Government and enables testing of new materials and solutions against corrosion, ageing and fouling in the marine environment, in real conditions that are monitored on site. It meets the specific needs of Basque companies that want to increase their offshore energy business. Companies such as Erreka, Credeblug, Ditrel, Navacel, Tubacex, Vicinay, Nem Solutions and Sasyma Coatings will be the first to test their solutions, as part of an initiative promoted by the Basque Energy Cluster.

From 2nd to 4th July, two representatives from the Saudi Electricity Company and Dubai Electricity & Water Authority held several meetings and visited companies from the Basque energy sector, fundamentally focussed on two strategic areas for the Basque Energy Cluster: electricity grids and solar energy (photovoltaic and CSP).