The second Consortium Meeting was held on 4th December at the headquarters of SENER in Getxo (Bizkaia) with the aim of continuing to promote the collaborative research and development of technologies and solutions for offshore wind power structures, towers and auxiliary systems for the new generation of high power wind turbines (10 MW+). The project has a budget of €5.3M for the 2019-2021 period and is funded by the Basque Government's Hazitek Programme, with the support of the European Regional Development Fund.

El pasado 26 de noviembre se organizó una jornada en la sede de Idom en Bilbao para presentar las capacidades de los sectores energético y medioambiental del País Vasco a una delegación de Sudáfrica, compuesta por organismos del gobierno, asociaciones y entidades de investigación. El Cluster de Medioambiente (ACLIMA) y el Cluster de Energía presentaron sus respectivos sectores y las cifras, actividades y proyectos más destacados de los últimos años.

The WindEurope Offshore 2019 event, which brought together the main companies and entities from the offshore wind sector in Europe, was held from 26 to 28 November in Copenhagen. The Basque Energy Cluster organised a joint stand with the presence of 14 Basque companies under the brand ‘Offshore Wind Basque Country’.

On 12 November they held a session to present the energy efficiency aid programme for SMEs and large corporations at the Zamudio Technology Park. This programme is managed by EVE. The workshop served to see the relevance of this sort of aid in industry and to help improve the presentation of requests for these sort of programmes.

The “European Utility Week” trade show was held in Paris from 12 to 14 November 2019. It included a joint stand organised by the Basque Energy Cluster under the “Smart Grids Basque Country” framework with the presence of 7 companies and exhibitors from the smart grids value chain to promote the competitiveness of the sector.

The European SHAR-Q project “Storage capacity over virtual neighbourhoods of energy ecosystems”, led by Atos and with the participation of the Basque Energy Cluster to coordinate the communication and dissemination activities, concluded its work after three years with an outstanding event in Brussels, having successfully met the objectives.

The President of the Basque Energy Cluster Association (ACE), Luis Rodríguez Llopis, and the President of the FLUIDEX Association, Alex Eizmendi, signed a Collaboration Agreement between both organisations in order to create and develop a collaboration framework to carry out joint activities. The Agreement ultimately aims to increase the competitiveness and international positioning of the member companies of ACE and FLUIDEX.

On 17 October, the Belgium Embassy organised an open day in collaboration with the Basque Energy Cluster to present business and investment opportunities in the country. Some companies of the Basque Energy Cluster had the opportunity to attend this event and to discover the collaborative possibilities that the country offers in energy matters.

On 9th October, the Basque Energy Cluster co-organised a conference on energy efficiency in the aerospace sector in conjunction with HEGAN, at the Carlo Gavazzi facilities. The conference included companies from the aerospace sector, which have large energy consumption plants, and suppliers of services to increase energy efficiency in this type of plants.

The joint project between the Basque Energy Cluster and Aclima, the Basque Environment Cluster was launched on 10th October and it seeks to identify new collaboration opportunities between companies of both sectors based on the Circular Economy.