Joined efforts for establishment of the BOSEC

 

July 20, 2007, Klaipeda

European coastal waters posses many opportunities for offshore renewable energy installations – called in adopted by EC European maritime policy Green paper. Offshore wind, ocean currents, waves and tidal movements carry a vast amount of energy. Commission projections are that wind power could generate 70,000 MW by 2010, including 14,000 MW offshore. Other emerging technologies include wave energy devices and tidal current turbines that can be deployed on the shoreline and offshore.

Taking into account innovative character of such activity a number of questions arise: what could be done to facilitate exploitation of such resources without compromising environmental and economic concerns, what new technologies are necessary to reach such resources and what innovative business models and regulations would be appropriate in this context?

Wery important problem is related to integration of power nets of Baltic States into European network and innovative activities related to realisation of advantages given by Lisbon strategy. What could be mechanisms, aible to create solid and permanent oportunities for efficient realisation of EU strategies on enlargement and increasing competettiveness in Baltic region?

To answer this question Wind Energy Associations and energy project developers of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland agreed to establish Baltic Off-shore energy cluster (BOSEC).

In undersigned by its representatives in July 20, 2007 Letter of intent they were declared:

We, hereunder signed representatives of Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian and Polish wind energy associations and off-shore wind energy developers,

bearing responsibility for sustainable and long-term supply of safe, reliable and available energy to residents and enterprises of the Baltic Sea region,

regretting that many advanced initiatives of off-shore energy development in Baltic countries meets significant barriers related to weak power grid infrastructure, lack of legislation and integration actions,

remarking that enlargement of European Union and integration into European and World economic structures requires significantly increase electricity market integration, which results in less than 10% of Europe’s electricity being traded across borders now,

stating that presented in 2007 by European Commission European Strategic Energy Technology Plan has been provided getting large scale offshore wind competitive within the short term and paving the way towards a competitive European off-shore Supergrid,

taking into account “The Baltic memorandum on responsible energy” declared by Presidents of wind energy associations of Baltic States in Oslo, in May 30, 2006, which has been highly evaluated by European Energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs,

seeking to create favourable legislative, institutional and financial opportunities for establishment and development of Baltic off-shore energy, we shall undertake to establish Baltic Off-shore Energy Cluster.