Offshore wind project receives $3.7M award, media report
The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Mainebiz and Associated Press reported an experimental offshore wind turbine being developed by a University of Maine-led consortium has won a $3.7 million federal award. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King learned last week that the Department of Energy is committing the additional money to the Maine Aqua Ventus project to help overcome remaining barriers to successful development of a pilot wind farm off Monhegan, according to the Press Herald article. “This extraordinary investment is proof that the DOE recognizes what we have long known: That the Gulf of Maine is a tremendous resource for wind energy that could provide an affordable source of renewable energy directly to the country’s population centers on the East Coast, while creating thousands of new jobs in Maine and diversifying the state’s electricity supply,” Collins and King said in a written statement. The Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Yahoo Finance carried the AP report.