Roundtable with stakeholders of the wave energy sector
Today, Commissioner Damanaki, together with Vice President Oettinger and MEP Bendtsen, met with representatives of companies developing wave energy technologies.
Commissioner Damanaki underlined their potential as one of the ocean energy sectors and the role they could play in helping the EU to achieve the renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction targets, innovate and create new, high-quality jobs. She encouraged the participants to actively participate in the work of the Ocean Energy Forum that has been created as a meeting place for industry, the public sector and stakeholders to discuss how to overcome the barriers to the development of the ocean energy sector.
