The future of United States and Pakistan relations is the subject of a free public presentation at 5 p.m., Monday, Jan. 7 at the University of Maine Buchanan Alumni House. Sponsored by the UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs and the Bangor Foreign Policy Forum, the talk by Husain Haqqani, a Pakistani scholar and […]
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A Bangor Daily News editorial suggested that the U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to invest grant money for research, development and testing of the nation’s first offshore floating wind turbines in Maine by the University of Maine and business and energy partners may help improve perceptions of the state’s business climate.
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Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for an article on the Hydrogen Fuel News website about UMaine’s development of prototype wind-energy test turbines for a planned offshore, floating wind farm, once the technology proves successful in demonstration models.
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In a news release posted on her office website, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has congratulated the University of Maine for recent U.S. Department of Energy grant funding to continue work developing what will eventually become the nation’s first offshore, floating wind-energy farm. The senator said the funding is potentially worth up to $47 million.
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The mid-coast newspaper Penobscot Bay Pilot published a news release about plans by the University of Maine and wind energy development partners in the DeepCwind Consortium to float a prototype wind turbine down the Penobscot River to the coast, where it will be moored offshore to test the technology behind plans for a full-scale wind […]
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An article on the Alternative Energy eMagazine website reported that energy and environmental attorney Jeff Thaler, a visiting professor of energy law and policy at the University of Maine School of Law and UMaine School of Economics, has written two guides for potential developers and others to navigate federal, state and local laws and regulations […]
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The agribusiness news website Domesticfuel.com posted a U.S. Department of Energy news release about a $4 million award it recently made to the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center to further advance the university’s research and development, with partners in the DeepCwind Consortium Research Program, of prototype test wind turbines in advance of […]
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MSNBC carried an Associated Press report about a $4 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance research and development by the University of Maine and industry partners of a first-in-the-nation offshore wind farm near Monhegan Island. The funding will enable the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center to complete engineering, design and […]
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Matthew R. Simmons Memorial Fund established to honor the late Ocean Energy Institute founder.
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Multiple news organizations, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Boston.com, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News and television Channels 2 (WLBZ), 5 (WABI) and 7 (WVII), carried stories about a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance research and development by the University of Maine and industry partners of a first-in-the-nation offshore wind farm near […]
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