UMaine-led offshore wind project featured in Engineering News-Record
Engineering News-Record (ENR) published an article about the University of Maine-led New England Aqua Ventus I offshore wind project. UMaine researchers are completing the design and engineering work for a full-scale floating hull for the proposed 12-MW Aqua Ventus I offshore wind farm, according to the article. The project follows the successful 2014 deployment of the Volturnus 1:8-scale model, the first grid-connected floating offshore wind turbine in the nation, the article states. A $3.7 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy, announced last November, will help underwrite completion of design and, within the next year, permitting and obtaining power purchase agreements to allow for construction of the two-turbine project, said Habib Dagher, executive director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.