News Outlets Note Remarks About Wind Power Research
Several news outlets, including Bloomberg Business Week, carried an Associated Press story that noted remarks made Wednesday by Deputy U.S. Interior Secretary David Hayes to the U.S. Senate’s Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday that Maine is place to test new technology being developed for offshore, deepwater wind power, and that the federal government is committed to helping to find federal funding for technology development. U.S. Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who serves on the committee, has been a proponent of the research and testing being done at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Engineering Center. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar also told the senators that offshore, deepwater wind power is a priority for the federal government. The website Canadian Business also carried the story.