WVII Reports on DOE Funding for Tidal Energy Project

WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine is one of 17 recipients to split $16 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund projects related to efficiently capturing energy from waves, tides and currents. UMaine received $394,000 to study fish interactions with a power system in Cobscook Bay to predict the probability of fish naturally encountering deployed energy devices.