Tidal Power Collaborators Meeting Advanced

Channel 5 (WABI) and Channel 2 (WLBZ) reported that University of Maine researchers will join other Maine Tidal Power Initiative collaborators Tuesday in Trescott near Cobscook Bay for a daylong public meeting that will update UMaine’s ongoing research into tidal power. The university is working with the Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Company on the nation’s first tidal turbine connected to the power grid. An Associated Press story appeared on the CBS News website.

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