Javier Marqués is a graduate Industrial Engineer, specialising in Energy Technologies from the School of Industrial Engineering in Bilbao and Master in Business Administration from the University of Deusto also in Bilbao. He has over 20 years experience in the energy field, particularly renewable energies and has lead in EVE (the Basque Energy Board) on the implementation of different programmes for the development of renewable energies (solar, wind, biomass, marine…) in the Basque Country in northern Spain. At present, he is the Director of The EVE Renewable Energies Department and a member of the Boards of companies, public/private involved in renewable energy projects and developments in which EVE has a share. He is also a member of the Renewable Energies Working Group, constituted by the central Spanish Authorities and the Spanish Autonomous Communities for the development of renewable energies in Spain. On the marine energy front, he leads on tan energy from waves project that EVE with EU backing through the Framework VI programme is developing on the Basque coastline at Mutriku employing OWC technology from Wavegen (Scotland)he project for energy from waves. He is also involved in an EVE project for the promotion and development of a research infrastructure for the development of marine energies on/off the Basque coastline (“bimep”. Biscay Marine Energy Platform).

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