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MORNING ROUNDUP: Ocean Energy Institute Seeks Direction
Still reeling from the death of founder and leader Matthew Simmons, staff and board members at the Ocean Energy Institute are debating the organization’s mission and path forward, the Portland Press Herald reported Sunday. The Maine-based Institute could continue as a non profit research group, join with another organization or pursue a private, for-profit [...]
Continue reading...Maine Releases RFP for Offshore Wind and Tidal Energy
Thursday, September 2, 2010
By Peter Brennan The Maine Public Utilities Commission issued a request for proposals Wednesday for a deepwater offshore wind pilot project and tidal renewable energy demonstration project. The RFP is the result of a law passed by the state legislature in April that implemented the recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task force. According to the RFP, [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: UMaine Studies Birds and Bats for Offshore Test Site
Monday, August 16, 2010
The University of Maine is working with the New Jersey Audubon Society to study birds and bats near the school’s Deepwater Offshore Wind Test Site, the DeepCWind Consortium reported on its website last week. The New Jersey group brought a mobile marine radar unit to Monhegan Island and will study flight patterns through the end [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Offshore Energy Institute Founder Dies In Maine
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Matthew Simmons, the leader and founder of the Offshore Energy Institute, died of an apparent heart attack last weekend, the Kennebec Journal reported. Simmons founded the think tank in 2007. The paper quoted Bob West, the institute’s managing director, saying that the organization will “carry his vision forward.” Maine Panel Reviewing Floating Turbine Submissions A University of Maine [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Maine Will Seek Bids For Floating Wind Farm
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The Maine Public Utilities Commission is planning a Sept. 1 solicitation for an offshore wind developer to build a 25 megawatt floating wind farm, Working Waterfront reported yesterday. The project must be in water that is at least 300-feet-deep and at least 10 miles from the mainland or any inhabited island, according to Working Waterfront. The winning [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: MA and RI Sign Offshore Wind Pact
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday to coordinate their offshore wind planning and development in federal waters, the Boston Globe reported on it’s Web site. The agreement covers a “400-square mile ‘area of mutual interest’ twelve miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard and extending 20 miles [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Senate Committee Approves Offshore Wind Funds for Maine
Monday, July 26, 2010
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved $10 million to support the University of Maine’s burgeoning offshore wind program, Mainebiz reported on Friday. Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a champion of the state’s offshore wind industry, announced last Thursday that the committee had approved her request. The House has not yet included the funding in its version of the [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Obama’s Ocean Zoning Plan
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
President Obama will soon implement a nationwide zoning plan for oceans and the Great Lakes, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. “The initiative culminates more than a year of work by a federal Ocean Policy Task Force, which Obama established last year. After the task force releases its final recommendations, the president is expected to sign [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind’s Costs
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Massachusetts Attorney General (and failed Senate candidate) Martha Coakley’s recent demand that Cape Wind disclose its cost and profit estimates has prompted the developer to publicly defend the proposed 130-turbine offshore wind project. Coakley told the Boston Globe last week that the power purhcase agreement between Cape Wind and utility National Grid was not sufficiently transparent. She [...]
Continue reading...MORNING ROUNDUP: Maine Voters Approve Offshore Wind Funding
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Voters in Maine overwhelmingly approved a bond measure yesterday that will support the development of deepwater offshore wind technology, the Portland Press Herald reported this morning. Question 2, as it was known, approved the borrowing of $26 million for a variety of energy issues, including $11 million for research on deep water floating turbines. Fifty nine [...]
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