The Maritime Cluster of Canary Islands (CMC) and the Canarian Federation of Port Companies (Fedeport) organized two meetings with the Iberdrola Group for their partners last week at the headquarters of the port authorities in both Las Palmas and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
During the meetings, the energy company showed a real case of an offshore wind project in its different phases. In addition, he explained what Iberdrola represents in the offshore wind sector and how the industrial transformation has taken place in its projects.
For its part, the Canary Islands Maritime Cluster, together with Aquatera, presented the PortWind Port Terminal project for the deployment of Offshore Wind Energy in the Canary Islands – Benchmarking Study, which arises within the framework of the Cluster’s strategy of supporting the value chain and local supply of the Canary Islands, for its involvement in the deployment of offshore wind energy, as well as analyzing the bottlenecks that currently exist.
Aquatera explained the analysis carried out in PortWind on the example port infrastructures in Brest (France) and Esbjerg (Denmark), as well as the plans that the Canarian port authorities have disclosed.
PortWind has received 80% funding obtained in the call for grants to Innovative Business Groups (clusters), for the execution of innovation projects in priority areas of the RIS3 – Call 2022, of the Canarian Agency for Research, Innovation and Society of the information.
The events were presented, in the capital of Gran Canaria, by the president of Fedeport, José Juan Ramos, and the person in charge of infrastructures of the Port Authority of Las Palmas, César Martín, while in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the president of the Port Authority in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Carlos González, and the vice president of Fedeport, Airam Díaz, acted as presenters.
