The Basque Energy Cluster, in conjunction with Basque Trade & Investment, organised remote attendance at the fair, consisting of a stand, participation at the keynote seminar, and a B2B event for Basque and Japanese businesses.

The Basque Energy Cluster organised a webinar on 2 October together with Fluidex, where Borja López de Munain, an expert on the Russian Oil&Gas market, talked about the opportunities available and initiatives being carried out in the country. There are currently short and medium term projects under way worth over 100 billion euros.

As part of a raft of initiatives aimed at reviving commercial activity after the COVID-19 crisis, Basque Trade & Investment and the Basque Energy Cluster (ACE) have come together to offer a cycle of webinars on emerging markets in the wind power sector. The fifth session, held on 1 October, focussed on the Brazilian wind power market. This country has long experience in the wind power sector and more than 16 GW of installed wind capacity. After its activity slowed down in recent years, a boom is expected and the country hopes to reach 24 GW of installed wind capacity by 2024. Several offshore locations are also being studied in Brazil in order to start installing wind farms.

On September 25th, PLATOON project was presented to 22 stakeholders from the wind energy field in the framework of the kickoff meeting of the Wind Turbine Data Sharing Working Group, that took place in Cámara de Comercio de Gipuzkoa (Chamber of Commerce) in San Sebastian.

OPEN DEI WG3 has been officially launched in an online kickoff meeting held on September 23rd, 2020. José I. Hormaeche, Managing Director of the Basque Energy Cluster and WG3 leader on behalf of H2020 PLATOON project, has presented the main WG goals and a preliminary action plan for the WG activities in 2020 and 2021.

As part of a raft of initiatives aimed at reviving commercial activity after the COVID-19 crisis, Basque Trade & Investment and the Basque Energy Cluster (ACE) have come together to offer a cycle of webinars on emerging markets in the wind power sector. The fourth session, held on 16 September, focussed on the Colombian wind power market, which plans to have over 1000 MW installed by 2023 and over 3000 MW installed by 2030.

(Estrategia Empresarial) Due to their high degree of internationalisation, Basque Energy Cluster (ACE) member companies have been affected by the COVID-19 crisis. In his interview with Beatriz Itza, José Ignacio Hormaeche, Managing Director of ACE, stressed that the added value brought by the joint actions offered by the Cluster, under the same ‘country brand’, could be a key factor in its revival.

As part of a raft of initiatives aimed at reviving commercial activity after the COVID-19 crisis, Basque Trade & Investment and the Basque Energy Cluster (ACE) have come together to offer a cycle of webinars on emerging markets in the wind power sector. The third session, held on 29 July, focussed on the Indian wind power market, where there are excellent perspectives for growth over the coming years.

As part of a raft of initiatives aimed at reviving commercial activity after the COVID-19 crisis, Basque Trade & Investment and the Basque Energy Cluster (ACE) have come together to hold a cycle of webinars on emerging markets in the wind power sector. The second webinar in the cycle centred on the Russian wind power market, where onshore wind power is set to play an increasingly relevant role in the country's electricity system over the coming years.

The Basque Energy Cluster is working together with Rystad Energy, a consulting firm specialised in the energy market (especially in the Oil&Gas and wind power sectors), to gather more information on the impact of COVID-19 on the energy sector and future trends in the short, medium and long term.