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PLOCAN announces the 15th Glider School edition
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) convenes the 15th edition of the Glider School, an international reference training forum in ocean-glider technology, to be held from October 20th to 24th in Telde, Gran Canaria. The period application submission is already open until June 30th. More information through the event website http://www.gliderschool.eu. The didactic
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The Government sets out the Offshore Wind and Marine Energy Roadmap for Spain
The Council of Ministers has approved the Roadmap for the Development of Offshore Wind and Marine Energy in Spain, a strategy to promote Spanish leadership in the research and technological development of the different clean energy sources that make use of natural marine resources, with special attention to wind power. The Canary Islands Oceanic Platform
PLOCAN signs the strategic framework of the Canary Islands 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The director of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, José Joaquín Hernández Brito, took part in the symbolic signing of the strategic framework of the Canary Islands 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in a ceremony in which the President of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, brought together public administrations, businesses and workers, universities,
PLOCAN: Promotion and sustainable development of marine renewable energies
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands as Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS), within its main objective of facilitating access and promoting the efficient use of the oceanic environment with the greatest environmental and sustainability guarantees, has as one of its main goals the promotion and development of marine renewable energies. This new video
The partners from the BOOST project visited PLOCAN facilities
Engineers and managers from Fred Olsen Renewables and Ocean Sun visited the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands to know the test site where the floating photovoltaic energy prototype of the European project “Bringing Offshore Ocean Sun to the global market” BOOST will be installed. Furthermore, they visited the onshore facilities in Taliarte, with personnel
PLOCAN facilitates the study of the impact of the La Palma volcano on the marine environment
PLOCAN, the Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS), is collaborating with the University of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (ULPGC) on a study of the La Palma volcano and its interaction with the marine environment. PLOCAN is uniquely positioned to provide the logistical and technological input to this partnership, enabling a research campaign that operates within
PivotBuoy floating offshore wind turbine prototype, to be tested at PLOCAN, is unveiled in the port of Las Palmas
The CEO of X1Wind, Alex Raventós Agustí, was at the port of Las Palmas to present the new prototype of the floating offshore wind turbine. Designed using patented PivotBuoy® technology, this solution introduces innovations that reduce the costs of floating wind turbines, facilitate their scalability, and minimise their impact on the environment, and therefore represents
PLOCAN and the ULPGC present a study on wave energy at the closing event of the DESAL+ transnational project
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) presented a joint study on the use of wave energy in desalination plants at the closing ceremony of the DESAL+ transnational project. The event, moderated by Javier Roo Filgueira, head of R&D projects at the Canary Islands
Final meeting of the ECOMARPORT project to promote Marine and Maritime R&D in Macaronesia
The consortium of the ECOMARPORT project – the main objective of which is to promote marine and maritime R&D in the European and African regions of Macaronesia – is holding a general meeting this week in Funchal (Madeira) to conclude the project, at which the results achieved after almost five years will be presented and
PLOCAN takes over coordination of EU funded Project MUSICA, a multi-use platform combining renewable energies, aquaculture, water desalination, energy storage and “green” support services
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) has been confirmed as the new coordinator of the leading European research project MUSICA (Multiple-use-of Space for Island Clean Autonomy) funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. The overall aim is to accelerate the business plans to commercialisation of its Multi-Use Platform (MUP) and Multi-use of
African women scientists share their experiences at PLOCAN in “Canarias Investiga”
The Regional Minister of Economy, Knowledge and Employment, Elena Máñez Rodríguez, and the President of the Women for Africa Foundation, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, inaugurated the Canarias Investiga conference at the PLOCAN headquarters. The meeting brought together African women scientists who are beneficiaries of the Science by Women programme and representatives of Canary