Offshore Wind Wire

ANALYSIS: How To Encourage Offshore Wind Research and Development

By Todd Griset Research and development investment is critical if the United States is to build anywhere close to the 4,150 gigawatts of potential offshore wind capacity identified in the June 2010 NREL report.  In order to achieve this level of offshore wind development, a significant amount of research and development investment [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Ocean Energy Institute Will Close, Transfer Work to UMaine

The Ocean Energy Institute — the organization founded and led by the late Matthew Simmons — will close its operations at the end of January and its offshore wind research will be carried on by the University of Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported yesterday. Simmons passed away last August, clouding the future of the institute.  [...]

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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 [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Offshore Energy Institute Founder Dies In Maine

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 [...]

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Obama’s Ocean Zoning Plan

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 [...]

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