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State Looks For Wind Sites Offshore

September 15, 2009 - WISCASSET -- The state continues to seek public input about locating demonstration sites for new offshore wind technologies. This week, public information meetings will take place in Wiscasset and Machias.

The Wiscasset meeting is Tuesday at the Wiscasset Community Center, 242 Gardiner Road. The Machias meeting is Wednesday at the University of Maine at Machias Performing Arts Center. Both meetings will be at 6:30 p.m., and are expected to last until 9 p.m.

Legislation passed in June mandates that the Department of Conservation and the State Planning Office work together to identify between one and five demonstration sites in Maine's coastal waters.

The sites will serve as locations for testing the components necessary to develop deep-water, offshore wind power, including floating platforms, anchoring systems, and new lightweight blade composites.

One site also will be designated as a wind energy research center operated by the University of Maine. State agencies are required to identify the sites by the middle of December.

September 13, 2009
– Boothbay Register


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