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The presentation will give an overview of the infrastructures for research and technological development of offshore wind and marine energy projects in Spain, those already available in a real marine environment, as well as the actions under development. The RENMARINAS DEMOS Programme of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, managed by the IDAE, has granted 147 million euros in aid from NextGenerationEU Funds to around twenty projects for the creation of new test platforms, the reinforcement of existing ones and for technological prototypes.
Ongoing actions are due to be completed by early 2026, starting multiannual experimental research activities involving field trial projects on the interaction between offshore renewable technologies and the sustainability of biodiversity in the marine environment. These activities generate employment opportunities for the technological, academic, and scientific community in an international strategic sector, such as Offshore Wind and Marine Energy, in real testing platforms in different coastal environments in the Canary Islands and in the marine sub-regions of the Iberian Peninsula
