On March 23rd, the 2nd Marine
industry forum was organized by Nagasaki Prefecture Government at Best Western
Hotel. The topic was: Growing
International Cooperation for Marine Renewable energy and the Potential of
Nagasaki. There were more than hundreds of participant from Asia, Europe, USA
joined this conference. Keynote speaker was Mr. Hirofumi Takano. He is an Operating
officer and General Manager in Renewable energy department at Class NK (Nippon
Kaiji Kyokai). The conference showed the achievement and ongoing projects in
marine renewable energy. Through this conference, more knowledge and
information from marine energy field was discussed and shared, leaded to promises
in future where people use energy from the ocean to address the energy
problems.
(Class NK developed certification guidelines for Marine Energy Conversion System such as wave power, ocean current, tidal current and OTEC (Ocean thermal energy conversion). Class NK will conduct certification service for Marine energy conversion system).
