Dagher Interested In Google Wind Power Project
Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, told the Bangor Daily News a proposed $5 billion undersea power line proposal aimed at spurring development of a coastal wind farm in the Mid-Atlantic states is a great sign that private investors are interested in offshore wind efforts. Google, along with a group of other investors, has stated its interest in developing the line. Dagher and UMaine scientists plan to have the nation’s first floating test turbine site by 2012 several miles off Monhegan Island.