La feria bienal más relevante del sector de las energías marinas, ICOE, se ha celebrado este año en Cherburgo de manera conjunta a la feria anual del sector en Francia, Seanergy, entre los días 12-14 de junio 2018. El evento ha acogido a más de 1.200 participantes de países de todo el mundo. Este evento de carácter internacional ha reunido a las principales empresas, instituciones y asociaciones clúster vinculadas con las energías marinas.

During a mission coordinated by the ECCP, the Basque Energy Cluster talked about the strengths of the Basque wind power sector at an offshore wind power seminar organised as part of the European Innovation Week in Taiwan. It also met with several of the country's main entities involved in the development of marine energy, as part of the activities planned for the European ELBE project.

The Wind Energy Basque Country stand will showcase the capabilities of Basque companies at AWEA WINDPOWER, the leading wind power event in the US, which takes place this year from 7 to 10 May in Chicago. The aim is to support the positioning of Basque wind power companies as suppliers of high value-added systems, components and services to the burgeoning US market.

On Friday, 13 April, Chilean law firm Guerrero Olivos, specialised in electrical, wind and solar power, came to Bilbao to meet with five Basque energy companies. The visit was arranged by the Basque Energy Cluster.

The Basque Country presented itself as a country with an industrial and technologically intensive energy sector at the conference which took place on 11 April at the Institute of Engineering in London. The UK is the fourth destination for exports from the Basque Country, behind Germany, France and the United States.

El Cluster de Energía y Gran Industria del Sur de Tamaulipas (CEGISTAM) ha firmado junto con el Cluster de Energía del País Vasco un Memorando de Entendimiento con el objetivo de establecer una iniciativa formal de cooperación entre ambas partes con la finalidad de fortalecer colaboraciones entre la región de Tamaulipas (México) y el País Vasco.

Representatives from MASEN (Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy), SENER, SIEMENS-GAMESA, BATZ ENERGY and the Basque Energy Cluster, analysed the sector situation and their collaboration experiences in an event exclusively dedicated to Morocco. This event was hosted as part of Intergune, the annual internationalisation meeting, promoted and organised by the Basque Government, SPRI and the Basque Internationalisation Agency.

On 19th and 20th February the BEC hosted Intergune+ 2018, the Basque Country Internationalisation Forum, a meeting point showcasing the services, funding and grants offered by the Basque Government to companies. This year the Basque Government organised a 'Basque Clusters' stand which acted as a meeting point for companies and sector clusters in the region.

The Basque Energy Cluster has been awarded the European Gold Label for management excellence by the European Cluster Excellence Initiative (ECEI). It is the first cluster in the Basque Country to receive this prestigious award.

On 13 December the Basque Energy Cluster organised an event with six speakers who talked about the current status and future opportunities of six international markets (Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Morocco and US) and another two speakers from SMEs who presented their internationalisation strategies and experience with the Basque Energy Cluster on the missions carried out over the past two years. This event closed the European project REINA PLUS, which began in 2016 and has included 13 missions to the aforementioned countries over the past two years.