OES / About Us

• What is an Implementing Agreement
• The OES-IA
• Background
• Vision, Mission, Strategic Objectives
• Contracting Parties to the OES-IA
• Ocean Energy

Vision, Mission, Strategic Objectives

Vision of the OES-IA

To realise, by 2020, the use of cost-competitive, environmentally sound ocean energy on a sustainable basis to provide a significant contribution to meeting future energy demands.

Mission of the OES-IA

To facilitate and co-ordinate ocean energy research, development and demonstration through international co-operation and information exchange, leading to the deployment and commercialisation of sustainable, efficient, reliable, cost-competitive and environmentally sound ocean energy technologies.

Strategic Objectives

1. To actively encourage and support the development of networks of participants involved in R,D&D, prototype testing and deployment, policy development, and deployment, and facilitate networking opportunities.
2. To become a trusted source of objective information and be effective in disseminating such information to ocean energy stakeholders, policymakers and the public.
3. To promote and facilitate collaborative research, development, and demonstration to identify and address barriers to, and opportunities for, the development and deployment of ocean energy technologies.
4. To promote policies and procedures consistent with sustainable development.
5. To promote the harmonization of standards, methodologies, terminologies, and procedures where such harmonization will facilitate the development of ocean energy.