Progress in Renewable Energies Offshore ─ Proceedings of Renew 2016, 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 October 2016

Progress in Renewable Energies Offshore includes the papers presented in the 2^nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW2016, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 October 2016). The scope of the book is broad, covering all aspects of renewable energies offshore activities, including:

- Resource assessment
- Wind energy
- Wave energy
- Tidal energy
- Ocean energy devices
- Multi-use platforms
- PTO design
- Grid connection
- Economic assessment
- Installation and maintenance planning.

Progress in Renewable Energies Offshore reflects the importance of renewable energies offshore worldwide, contributes to the exchange of information on the developments and experience obtained in concept development, design and operation of these devices, and will be invaluable for academics and professionals working in the area of renewable energies.

Carlos Guedes Soares is a professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He received the MSc and Ocean Engineer degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1976, the PhD degree from the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 1984, and the Doctor of Science degree from the Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, in 1991.
Carlos is the President of the Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (CENTEC), which is a research centre of the Instituto Superior Tecnico that is recognized and funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.?He has coauthored more than 400 journal papers and 600 conference papers and has been involved in more than 60 international research projects and 20 national projects.