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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A Lewiston Sun Journal editorial has praised the University of Maine for taking a lead nationally in researching and developing offshore, floating wind turbine energy-generation equipment, in spite of the challenges. The Bangor Daily News also published the editorial. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756
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Advanced Structures and Composites Center wins first phase of potential $93.2 million program.
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The websites Earth Techling and the technology news website nanowerk have published reports on the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s new test wind turbine erected on campus, a 1:8 scale model prototype of a planned series of larger, offshore wind turbines being developed by UMaine and the DeepCwind Consortium. Channel 5 (WABI) […]
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In a Bangor Daily News article about the scale-model wind turbine erected at the University of Maine as part of ongoing wind power research and development, Habib Dagher, director of the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, compared the 121-foot-tall test model to NASA’s first satellite Explorer I because of what it promises in the […]
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