Green | August 02, 2012 | 3 comments

Tidal Energy Project in Maine. Congratulations Maine!

source: http://www.pressherald.com/news/maine-company-leading-way-as-tidal-energy-comes-of-age_2012-...

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Ocean Renewable Power Company leads the way for tidal power in the USA.

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http://www.pressherald.com/news/maine-company-leading-way-as-tidal-energy-comes-...
07/21/2012
"Tidal power, long in development, is finally coming of age, with a Maine company leading the way."

"What ORPC is doing in Cobscook Bay is really a very important milestone," said Paul Jacobson, an ocean energy expert at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Electrical Power Research Institute. "With this project, these tidal power devices have finally crossed the threshold into commercial development."

"There's much more to come. ORPC plans to add two more turbines to its Cobscook site in the coming year, and as many as 18 in the faster, harsher waters of Passamaquoddy Bay on the other side of Eastport by 2016."

"Maine is where it all started and where the lessons are being learned," said ORPC's president and co-founder, Chris Sauer, who calls Eastport the "Kitty Hawk" of his nascent industry. "Maine will become the intellectual center for tidal energy, with the people and knowledge base for how to do this."

"There are very few technology providers internationally that have installed machines and have had them running for a significant amount of time, and ORPC is leading in that charge," said Dana Morin, president of Fundy Tidal Inc., which has partnered with ORPC for an upcoming project at Digby Gut in southwestern Nova Scotia."

"In the next 12 months they will have the quantitative, verifiable information that will allow investors to make decisions. There are very few others who have come that far."
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    Maine,  Tidal Power,  TidGen,  ORPC
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3 comments // Tidal Energy Project in Maine. Congratulations Maine!

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    • 07/25/2012

      http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/07/25/maine-tidal-energy

      Maine's new energy project/ radioboston. Listen at link.

      "A company in Eastern Maine is diving into the one of the country’s least tapped sources of renewable energy: the ocean.

      The Federal Department of Energy has estimated that there’s so much power in the ebb and flow of coastal waters, that if harnessed correctly, tidal power could generate up to one-third of the nation’s total annual electricity needs. Yet tidal power hasn’t seen anywhere near the attention that solar and wind have seen in the past decade.

      Ocean Renewable Power Company is developing the country’s first commercial-scale tidal power generator in Eastport, Maine, which chief executive Chris Sauer is hoping will become the Kitty Hawk of ocean power.

      Guests:

      * Chris Sauer, chief executive of the Ocean Renewable Power Company"

    • 10 months ago
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