{"id":81081,"date":"2018-07-31T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T14:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/coordinated-ocean-energy-efforts-herald-a-new-industrial-sector"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T17:01:38","slug":"coordinated-ocean-energy-efforts-herald-a-new-industrial-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/coordinated-ocean-energy-efforts-herald-a-new-industrial-sector","title":{"rendered":"Coordinated ocean energy efforts herald a new industrial sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coordinated-ocean-energy-efforts-herald-a-new-industrial-sector.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite its remaining mystery, the ocean is a complex working environment, widely used for fishing, shipping and recreation; but so far largely untapped for energy generation. OCEANERA-NET seeks to give the industry the boost it needs.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union coastline runs to around 66 000 kilometres. This vast stretch holds a largely unexploited potential for ocean generated electricity, calculated to be around 380 GW by DG MARE (the EU Directorate responsible), constituting a significant contribution to the EU\u2019s 2020 targets for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/renewable+energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">renewable energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, there are a number of Member States funding research and development into ocean energy technology. However, these efforts are not coordinated and so not the game-changers they could be.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-07-ocean-energy-efforts-herald-industrial.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;07-ocean-energy-efforts-herald-industrial.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its remaining mystery, the ocean is a complex working environment, widely used for fishing, shipping and recreation; but so far largely untapped for energy generation. OCEANERA-NET seeks to give the industry the boost it needs. The European Union coastline runs to around 66 000 kilometres. This vast stretch holds a largely unexploited potential for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81093,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81081\/revisions\/81093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}