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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman"">The 4<sup>th</sup> Offshore Energy
Storage (OSES) Symposium,
the first time in the US, will be held July 12-14, 2017 at the
Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution [WHOI] in Clark 507.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Nils Bolgen, Wind Program Director at the Massachusetts
Clean Energy
Centre [MassCEC], will be at WHOI on Wednesday, July 12, to make
a
presentation at OSES on "<i>Leading Strategic Investment in
Clean Energy
Systems</i>" at 3:00 p.m. There will be an introduction by
WHOI President
and Director, Mark Abbott, to open OSES on Tuesday.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Fifty presentations
including panel
discussions are scheduled (see <a
href="https://www.osessociety.com/oses2017">https://www.osessociety.com/oses2017</a>)
over the three days.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
topics include
offshore power generation by wind, tide, and waves; energy
storage to reduce
the requirements for delivery ashore while providing power as
needed despite
irregular environmental sourcing; and financial, policy, and
assessment of the
resource.<br>
<br>
Registration will be required to attend the symposium.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>To register, see the
website above.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>However
to thank the Institution for
providing this facility, there will be an IEEE/Oceanic
Engineering Society
Chapter meeting open to the entire community for free with talks
by the
organizers, Rupp Carriveaux, Seamus Garvey, and Tony Santo at
5:30 p.m., in
Clark 507 on Friday, July 14.</span></p>
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