Wind Turbine Prototype Launch Covered Nationally

CBS News, The New York Times, Renewable Energy Magazine, Shanghai Daily, Composites World, MPBN and the Bangor Daily News were among several local and national news organizations to cover Friday’s launch of the first grid-connected offshore floating wind turbine by members of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center and Cianbro construction company. The prototype was launched into the Penobscot River in Brewer and will be towed to Castine.