{"id":1018,"date":"2019-11-10T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosea.info\/en\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T01:07:40","slug":"report-on-the-7th-international-otec-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gosea.info\/en\/report-on-the-7th-international-otec-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on the 7th International OTEC Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 7th International OTEC Symposium took place in Busan, South Korea September 27-28. Participants from at least 10 countries gathered to share the latest in technology, research, and projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-day event included keynotes from Luis Vega, Yasuyuki Ikegami, and Michael Petterson, more than 20 presentations, and a poster session with 28 presentations displayed. The event was closed by a meeting of the International Energy Agency\u2019s Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES) task group on OTEC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Korean Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering and the Korean Society of Power System Engineering (KRISO and KSPSE) impressively hosted the symposium while also preparing for at-sea tests. The highlight of this year was a tour of the Korean OTEC team\u2019s 1MW gross scale OTEC equipment led by KRISO, which had been installed on a barge ready for testing in Korean Waters. The barge departed the morning of the 27th and completed initial tests within days, despite an inbound typhoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

KRISO reported they successfully produced 338kW on September 30th given test conditions, a new record for OTEC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and their Ocean Energy Research partners were selected as the 2020 host of the 8th<\/sup>\u00a0International OTEC Symposium, in Cancun, Mexico, which is tentatively scheduled for October 22-24, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n