Bevan Carr

Background

About Bevan Carr

Bevan is the COO of the Oceana Energy Company. Oceana Energy is the developer of a novel, scalable marine turbine, suitable for cost-effectively generating clean, green renewable energy from rivers, tides, and ocean currents. Working in collaboration with renowned institutions such as the United States Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, and the University of Alaska, Oceana Energy has developed and demonstrated its proprietary and patented turbine design. Our next steps, working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are to demonstrate our cost-effective approach to volume manufacturing these turbines at scales suitable for utility-scale energy production.As an innovation consultant and Partner at Lira Ltd, Bevan has helped many companies prepare their business plans for large EU public funding projects for deeptech innovative solutions in the areas of: renewable energy; healthcare; AI; robotics; Telecommunications; and Space Tech, with a particular keenness to help highly innovative Irish companies to overcome the lack of private funding that restrains their development.He has a degree in Physics and Astrophysics from Trinity College Dublin, he has had the pleasure to have served as a director on a number of startup companies and is also an avid environmentalist being one of the founding members of the non-profit environmental organisation Croí na Cré, which works to protect and restore native Irish woodlands and environments throughout the island of Ireland.