Podcast Episode 5 - Inna Braverman (Eco Wave Power)

27/02/2020 20 min
Podcast Episode 5 - Inna Braverman (Eco Wave Power)

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Episode Synopsis

'We need to actually build a commercial wave farm, not with 8 or 10 floaters, but with 200 or 300 floaters and prove that wave energy can become profitable.' - Inna Braverman

Welcome to the PortXL Podcast, hosted by Sven Goyvaerts, Program Manager of PortXL Antwerp. In this fifth episode we talk with Inna Braverman, CEO and co-founder of Eco Wave Power. Her company took part in the 2019 PortXL Rotterdam program.

Eco Wave Power is a Swedish company, founded in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2011, that has developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient technology for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity. Eco Wave Power is the only wave energy company in the world, to own and operate a wave energy array, which is connected to the grid in accordance with a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

To find more info about Eco Wave Power, go to www.ecowavepower.com

PortXL is the 1st World Port & Maritime Accelerator for innovative start-ups and scale-ups that have the potential to disrupt the port and maritime industry. Since 2015, it has been running an annual acceleration program, matching large corporates belonging to the port ecosystem with start-ups whose solutions can tackle their challenges. In 2018 PortXL has expanded from Rotterdam to Antwerp and Singapore and in 2019 it has assisted the Italian port of Taranto with the development of their own innovation hub.