BREWER (AP) — What’s called the first grid-connected offshore floating wind turbine in North America is being launched in Brewer.
The 65-foot-tall turbine is a prototype that’s one-eighth the size of a full-scale turbine that the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center hopes to launch in 2016. The new floating turbine was built by the Cianbro construction company.
The prototype will be launched today and then towed from Brewer down the Penobscot River to Castine this weekend. By Monday, it will be hooked up to the grid and start generating electricity.
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