The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) convenes the 16th edition of the Glider School, an international reference training forum in ocean-glider technology, to be held from October 19th to 23rd 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
The role of ocean renewable energy as an alternative energy source for islands and remote coastal location will be discussed at a specific workshop in Hawaii on the 3rd of May. This workshop will look at the opportunities and barriers to local adoption of ocean renewable energy in islands communities and remote costal locations of
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) leads the European project FLOTANT which objective is to develop an innovative, integrated, Floating Offshore Wind solution, optimized for deep waters (100-600m) and to sustain a 10+MW wind turbine generator. The technical coordination of the FLOTANT project is supported by the COBRA Group, a global benchmark with
PLOCAN participated on behalf of the European project AtlantOS in Ocean Business 2019, the hands-on ocean technology exhibition and training forum, celebrated during the 9th, 10th and 11th April 2019 at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), in Southampton, UK. With over 5000 visitors from more than 65 countries and more than 360 international exhibitors, over
The fourth General Assembly of partners of the European iFADO (Innovation in the Framework of the Atlantic Deep Ocean) Project, designed mainly to detect and cover the gaps in existing observation in the framework of the Atlantic Deep Ocean, was held in the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), in Southampton, UK. Under the co-ordination of the
The Canary Island Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) has been awarded the Navigare Mare 2019 prize in the V Excellens Mare Prizes 2019, granted by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (pwc) to acknowledge the merit and excellence of entities and people who do an outstanding job in the sustainable development of marine maritime activities. The reason for awarding the prize to
The Portuguese Hydrographic Institute and PLOCAN launched the Seaglider-1K in the Nazaré Submarine Canyon from the ship NRP Auriga in order to carry out a scientific-technical mission between Portugal and Gran Canaria, separated approximately by 1500 kilometres. The device will be collected in Gran Canaria, after two months of continuous and autonomous navigation. This glider
PLOCAN participated in the First International AtlantOS Symposium, which supports an All-Atlantic Ocean Observing System. Furthermore, it has highlighted the end of AtlantOS project in order to start the UN (United Nations) strategy ‘Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development’ (2021-2030), including the Paris Declaration on All-Atlantic Ocean Observing. The First International AtlantOS Symposium has
The director of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, Octavio Llinás, gave a conference on PLOCAN within the ‘Energía Mayor’ initiative, which promotes the scientific dissemination between elderly people, celebrated in the National Museum of Natural Sciences. During the conference, the director of PLOCAN explained in detail the facilities, services and current projects of
Carlos García Acón, Managing Director of ESTEYCO, presented the implementation of the marine wind turbine prototype Mario Luis Romero Torrent of the ELICAN project located in PLOCAN’s Test Site using the underwater electricity grid (REDSUB). This prototype is the first in Spain and in the south of Europe with a fixed foundation. Furthermore, it is
PLOCAN participated in the Final General Assembly of the SE@PORTS project held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto on 21st March. This project intends to demonstrate the high potential of seaports breakwaters for the integration of wave energy converters ( WECs) in sea ports.