OES-IA

In March 2008 the Minister of Energy, Hon. David Parker, accepted an invitation from the International Energy Agency (IEA) for New Zealand to join the IEA’s Ocean Energy Systems Implementing Agreement (OES-IA).  He also appointed AWATEA as its representative and the Executive Officer has since attended a number of OES-IA Executive meetings since that time.

The OES-IA aims to facilitate and co-ordinate ocean energy research, development and demonstration through international co-operation and information exchange, leading to the deployment and commercialisation of sustainable, efficient, reliable, cost-competitive and environmentally sound ocean energy technologies (www.iea-oceans.org).

New Zealand had attended the 6-monthly OES-IA Executive meetings as an Observer since May 2006 and became the 15th country to join the Executive in New York in April 2008.

AWATEA’s Executive Officer, Dr. John Huckerby, will be the Chairman of the OES-IA for 2 years from 1 January 2009.

Dr. Huckerby has produced a trip report for each of the meetings he has attended and these are available for members:

Vancouver, Canada    May 2006
Lisbon, Portugal         November 2006
Mexico City                Did not attend
Messina, Italy            October 2007
New York, USA          April 2008
Brest, France            October 2008
Bilbao, Spain            March - April 2009
Oslo, Norway             September 2009