Renewable Energy News reports the University of Maine has proposed collaborating with Norwegian company Statoil on their respective floating offshore wind pilot projects. Jake Ward, University of Maine vice president for innovation and economic development, told reNews UMaine and Statoil discussed the possibility of sharing some aspects of development and construction.
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The Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine has extended its test deployment of a floating wind turbine in Castine Harbor to a year as it prepares its bid for a long-term contract for an offshore wind pilot project. Maine Public Broadcasting Network also carried a report on UMaine’s bid preparation titled “UMaine looks […]
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The University of Maine’s offshore wind efforts were mentioned in the Bangor Daily News editorial “LePage must show offshore wind rhetoric is more than hot air.”
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Recharge News reported the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium will submit a bid for a deepwater offshore wind pilot project. State utilities regulators reopened the bidding after lawmakers approved legislation backed by Gov. Paul LePage to let UMaine compete.
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Reinforced Plastics published an article about VolturnUS 1:8, the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine to be deployed off the coast of North America and created by the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium. The article focused on the turbine’s tower made of glass fiber reinforced polymers.
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In a Q&A with the Portland Press Herald, Ben Polito, co-founder of Pika Energy in Westbrook, credited the University of Maine summer internship program, Small Enterprise Growth Fund and the Maine Technology Institute with helping get the Maine business off the ground.
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State utilities regulators have reopened the bidding for an offshore wind project contract after lawmakers approved legislation backed by Gov. Paul LePage to let the University of Maine compete, according to an Associated Press report carried by NECN and WABI (Channel 5). Renewable Energy News also carried a report.
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The research of Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mick Peterson was cited in a recent BloodHorse.com story, “Beyond Scratching the Surface,” focusing on efforts by the horse racing industry to improve track safety for horses and jockeys. Peterson’s Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory collects and analyzes data from race tracks nationwide in an effort to provide a […]
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Hannah Breton Loring, a graduate student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMaine, was interviewed by WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) about her research on and development of a more affordable bridge reinforcement system. Loring’s system consists of fiber-reinforced polymer composites that attach to the bottom of concrete beams to […]
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UMaine grad student developing more affordable option for state to reinforce aging bridges.
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