La feria anual más relevante del sector de las energías marinas en Francia, Seanergy 2019, ha acogido a más de 200 expositores y 2.000 asistentes de países de todo el mundo. BIMEP, DITREL y el Ente Vasco de la Energía han participado como expositores junto al Cluster de Energía en un stand agrupado bajo la marca ‘Wave Energy Basque Country’.

La primera semana de junio, del 3 al 7, una delegación de empresas y entidades colombianas relacionadas con el sector energético han visitado el País Vasco para aprender de la experiencia y el conocimiento de la industria vasca en la eficiencia energética y la integración de renovables en la matriz energética. El Cluster de Energía organizó una jornada el día 3 en las que empresas colombianas y vascas intercambiaron su experiencia e impresiones respecto al sector, terminando con una sesión de networking en la que se fomentó el contacto entre las mismas.

Una delegación de ocho entidades vascas coordinada por el Cluster de Energía participa en una misión al EVS32, el evento más destacado de la movilidad eléctrica a nivel mundial, celebrado del 20 al 22 de mayo en la ciudad francesa de Lyon. La misión ha sido organizada en el marco del Programa Smart Mobility Industry, impulsado por la Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa.

The Basque Energy Cluster co-organised a working session on 21 May with Offshore Väst, a partner of the ELBE project, which included visits to key organisations from the renewable marine energy sector in Sweden and a B2B meeting with these companies and other attendees. The event took place in Gothenburg and had over 50 participants from European countries forming part of the ELBE project (Sweden, Scotland, Denmark and Belgium), in addition to the attendance of Basque and Norwegian entities which further enriched the session.

Representatives of ten Basque organisations have participated together with the Basque Energy Cluster in a mission to Germany to attend the “The Smarter E Europe” event which combines, among others, the EES and Intersolar trade fairs, a world reference in the photovoltaic and energy storage sectors. The mission was organised within the framework of the Smart Mobility Industry Programme, promoted by the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa.

El Cluster de Energía realizó la semana de Pascua un viaje exploratorio a Santiago de Chile, como parte del proyecto Space2IDGO. Este proyecto entre clusters europeos tiene como objetivo buscar en Chile oportunidades en el sector energético para empresas del sector aeroespacial (empresas con drones, empresas que utilizan herramientas satelitales para la O&M de parques de energía renovable, etc.). El Cluster de Energía mantuvo reuniones con diferentes agentes del sector energético para contrastar la situación del país y analizar las oportunidades de empresas del sector energético en diferentes aplicaciones tecnológicas para mejorar los equipos y plantas energéticas en Chile.

The Basque Energy Cluster hosted an Energy Workshop, in collaboration with BT&I (Basque Trade & Investment), focusing on the internationalisation of innovative energy sector SMEs within the Intergune+ framework. The Basque Internationalisation Forum was held at the BEC on 6 and 7 May, and became a meeting point showcasing services, financing and aid resources available to Basque companies for their internationalisation processes, and promoting meetings with representatives of the Exterior Network of the Basque Internationalisation Agency.

The 2019 WindEurope week at the BEC has offered many opportunities to the attendees. In addition to attending the fair, some institutions had the chance to visit key facilities of the wind power sector in the Basque Country. The Basque Energy Cluster guided a group of institutions from African countries on a small tour around several stands in the Wind Energy Basque Country hall on 4 April. The next day, they visited companies from the port of Bilbao jointly with companies from other European regions.

The Basque wind power sector has shown its powerful industrial fabric at the WindEurope Fair, the most important meeting worldwide in this field, which was held from 2nd to 4th April at BEC and was attended by 8,000 professionals, 300 exhibitors, offering 30 conference sessions and 155 leading speakers and experts from the world of technology and policies in the field of energy.

A meeting of the European interregional collaboration network ‘Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) partnership’ was held on 4 April in Bilbao, taking advantage of the ‘WindEurope Conference & Exhibition 2019’ framework, which took place at the BEC from 2 to 4 April.