VolturnUS is UMaine's patented floating concrete hull technology that has been awarded 43 patents in the U.S. and abroad. (University of Maine image) An effort to study the impacts of offshore wind in ...

The federal government agreed this week to lease a 15.2-square-mile site to Maine, to develop the nation’s first floating offshore wind research site in federal waters. The offer comes on the heels of ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has awarded the US’s first floating offshore wind energy research lease to the State of Maine. The lease area covers under 15,000 acres and is 28 nautical ...

VolturnUS is UMaine's patented floating concrete hull technology that has been awarded 43 patents in the U.S. and abroad. (University of Maine image) Maine has gotten the green light to develop the ...

While the quest for pulling more megawatts from wind turbines has generally led to bigger and bigger rotors on turbines of conventional design – like this monster 22-MW number in China – Norway’s Wind ...

Three years after they began, negotiations over a proposed power contract for an offshore floating wind farm in the Gulf of Maine have come to an abrupt halt, with the developer citing “recent shifts ...

Researchers at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway have used a numerical model to assess the hydrodynamic response of a floating PV system prototype with soft connections for offshore conditions.

The developer of Maine’s first offshore wind array has paused the project amid the Trump administration’s backlash against the industry. Pine Tree Offshore Wind asked to suspend negotiations with ...