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OTEC Africa Conference 2013

Borås, Sweden 15-16 October

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  • OTEC Africa Conference 2013
  • BOATS OF TANZANIA
  • ELECTRIFIED VILLAGE, TANZANIA
  • OTEC Africa Conference 2013
  • POSSIBLE OTEC SITE, TANZANIA
  • SALT PRODUCTION PLANT, MOZAMBIQUE
  • OTEC Africa Conference 2013
  • POSSIBLE OTEC SITE, MOCAMBIQUE
  • FISH MARKET, TANZANIA

Welcome to the world's first conference on OTEC
as a sustainable solution for developing countries!

This is the OTEC Africa Conference 2013:

  • A two-day intensive conference in Sweden on OTEC,
    a clean technology for extracting electrical power and fresh water using seawater
  • Technical track: Utilizing OTEC, wind power, and other cleantech solutions in developing countries
  • Non-technical tracks: Democracy and gender issues, funding, and more
  • Organizers: OTEC Africa, Runde Environmental Centre, and The University of Borås
  • More than twenty speakers from four continents
  • Keynote speaker: Ted Johnson, OTE Corporation, USA
  • Keynote speaker: Luis A. Vega, Ph.D., Hawaii National Marine Renewable Energy Center, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Keynote speaker: Sami Mutair, Ph.D., Saga University, Japan
  • Representative from the Swedish government:
    Per-Anders Widell, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications