Offshore Wind reports on UMaine summit
Offshore Wind reported the University of Maine hosted the inaugural Matthew R. Simmons Memorial Summit: A Technology Roadmap for Floating Offshore Wind on Oct. 1 and 2. The summit gathered information from various perspectives of platform designers, researchers, permitting agencies and developers with the goal of producing a roadmap that advances the floating offshore wind, according to the article. “The objective of this summit was to advance floating offshore wind technology by bringing together a select but diverse group of leading stakeholders and even competitors involved in the development of the technology,” said Habib Dagher, founding director of the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “The group covered key aspects of floating wind technology, including project development and financing, engineering, permitting and construction. They heard about challenges and opportunities from one another and started to formulate a plan to move the floating wind industry forward. The group will author and release its first floating offshore wind turbine roadmapping report in early 2016, and continue to work together and meet every two years.”