NEWS
PLOCAN is featured in a new episode of the EURONEWS OCEANS programme
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) is featured in the latest episode of the leading Euronews news programme “Oceans”. The report, premiered on 30th January and available on the EuroNews website in eight languages, explores the potential of ocean energy in Europe and showcases various projects in countries such as Spain, France, Portugal
PLOCAN joins the EXAIL- Maritime User Conference 2024
The headquarters of the French technology-based company EXAIL held a new edition of the Maritime Users Conference, an event on Marine Autonomous Systems (MAS), which brings together more than 150 leading users and operators in the sector representing the development and supplier industry, services, academia, research, government agencies and regulatory entities of these cutting-edge marine
SMART COAST 4.0 Project: Logistics Efficiency, Security and Protection for Port Infrastructures
PLOCAN, together with the company QAIS (Qualitas Artificial Intelligence & Science), have been granted within the framework of the Ports 4.0 call, promoted by the public entity Puertos del Estado, to undertake the SMART COAST 4.0 project aimed at improving efficiency logistics, security and protection of port infrastructures. The project is based on information fusion
Annual Meeting of the Ocean Citizen Project: Driving Marine Forest Restoration
The European project Ocean Citizen for the restoration of marine forests held its first annual meeting in Lecce, Italy, to reflect on the technological advancements of the past year in the restoration of these ecosystems. These efforts will not only benefit the health of coastal ecosystems but also promote practices transferable to other areas of
PLOCAN’s fleet of autonomous marine vehicles increases its operational activity by 30% in 2023
PLOCAN’s fleet of autonomous ocean vehicles has carried out multiple scientific, technical and training missions in 2023, totaling 242 days sea-operations, with a navigation record of 3,200 nautical miles, among which highlight deployments and operations conduced in the Azores, Madeira, Lisbon, the island of La Palma and in the North and South strip of the
The educational miniboat “El Hierro Mar Salitre y Lava” in the Central Atlantic Equatorial zone after six months of sailing journey
The educational boat iFADO-IV El Hierro Mar Salitre y Lava, which began its sailing journey six months ago from the island of El Hierro, keep sailing in the Equatorial zone of the Atlantic Ocean after being trapped by the North Equatorial Countercurrent, responsible of significant oceanic eddies in the Northern Brazil as a consequence of
PLOCAN incorporates a new acoustic technology to its underwater observation fleet
PLOCAN’s underwater glider fleet has incorporated a new AURIS passive acoustic technology that expands its scientific ocean-observing capabilities and quality. Among the direct and most interesting applications of AURIS highlights marine-mammal monitoring, as well underwater noise measurement as potential impact on the ecosystem in areas where activities linked to Blue Economy sectors are carried out,
Roadmap progress of the Spanish National Working Group on ocean-gliders
The Canary Islands Government delegation in Madrid hosted this week the annual meeting of the national Working Group on ocean gliders, currently joined by five institutions: AZTI (Basque Country), IEO/CSIC – Spanish Institute of Oceanography/Council for Scientific Research ( Madrid and Santander), SOCIB – Coastal Observation System (Balearic Islands), ULPGC – University of Las Palmas
PLOCAN presents BOOST in La Palma, the largest floating offshore solar energy system in Europe
The floating solar power plant prototype will produce around half a gigawatt hour, the equivalent of the consumption of 100 families The initiative positions the port of Tazacorte as a centre of innovation in port decarbonizing in the Canary Islands and the island as a reference in the transition towards energy sustainability in Europe The
Annual Meeting of the PLOTEC Project: Advancing Marine Energy Technology
The partners of the PLOTEC project, a pan-European consortium with the primary goal of designing a robust OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) platform capable of withstanding extreme weather conditions in tropical oceans and demonstrating its economic viability, gathered in Bad Hall, Austria, to review the first year of progress in creating an Ocean Thermal Energy