OES Annual Report 2012 - Ocean Energy Systems

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02 / REPORT OF THE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
2.4 / COLLABORATION WITH IEA INITIATIVES
The OES ExCo continued to co-ordinate its activities with relevant IEA meetings and initiatives. Where
possible the ExCo is represented at these meeting by members of the Cabinet or delegates. Any meeting
attended by the Cabinet in an official capacity, using Agreement Common Funds, is subject of a meeting
report to the ExCo by the representative member.
Energy Technology Perspectives 2012
The ETP 2012 is the International Energy Agency’s publication on new developments in energy technology.
It demonstrates how technologies can make a decisive difference in achieving the objective of limiting the
global temperature rise to 2°C and enhancing energy security. ETP2012 presents scenarios and strategies
to 2050, with the aim of guiding decision makers on energy trends and what needs to be done to build a
clean, secure and competitive energy future.
This year the ExCo did collaborate with the IEA’s ETP modeling team. The preparation of the OES document
in 2012 “International Vision for Ocean Energy” in close collaboration with the IEA modeling team establish
cost and deployment trends which served as inputs to the IEA modeling team, thus enabling the IEA to
make credible inclusion of ocean energy trend data, for the first time.
More information at:
http://www.iea.org/etp/
Energy Technology Network: Energy Technology Initiatives 2012
The IEA has been during 2012 updating results IAs wants to showcase in a Spotlight section of the Energy
Technology Initiatives 2012 report. The OES provided inputs on the most relevant OES achievements in
2012: new Annex V initiated during the year and the OES International Vision.
Joint IRENA/IEA-RETD workshop “Levelised Costs of Renewable Energy: What if costs
continue to drop?”
26 October 2012, Bonn, GERMANY
The intention of this IRENA and IEA-RETD workshop was to bring together industry representatives,
scientists and policy-makers to discuss the recent developments in RET costs and the future implications of
these developments. The costs of many Renewable Energy Technologies (RET) have dropped significantly in
recent years due to a virtuous circle of high learning rates and increased RET deployment. At the same time,
the impact of integrating larger shares of renewables into electricity systems is becoming more apparent.
Institutions, including IRENA and IEA-RETD, are studying the issues and the implications surrounding these
developments.
The German delegate attended this workshop.
More information at:
http://iea-retd.org/archives/events/irena-and-iea-retd-workshop-on-levelised-costs-of-renewable-energy