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Notice to Mariners – May 2nd, 2025
This notice is to inform you that the University of Maine will be towing a research floating wind turbine weighing 375 tons and is 56ft wide x 111ft tall. The barge will be towed about 5.5 nautical miles from Mack Point in Searsport, Maine to just off of Dyce Head in Castine, Maine. For public…
NOTICE TO MARINERS
UMaine will be towing a research floating barge weighing 375 tons and is 56ft wide x 32ft tall. The barge will be towed about 60 miles from Desert Narrows off Trenton, Maine to Mack Point in Searsport, Maine. The date of the tow is highly dependent on weather and vessel traffic at Mack Point but…
ASCC Researcher Joins ACMA Emerging Leaders Program
Cody Sheltra, ASCC Senior Research Manager, has been accepted into the American Composites Manufacturing Association (ACMA) Emerging Leaders Program. This inaugural group will learn how to advocate for the composites industry; advancing a new generation of thinkers and leaders. Sheltra’s research focuses on projects related to the manufacturing and testing of large-scale thermoset composites and…
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The American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit (AFloat) brings together industry, academia, academiarnment floating offshore wind experts from around the world to chart a course for floating offshore wind in the US.
Maine Makes Waves with America’s ‘First’ Offshore Floating Wind Turbine
The first grid-connected offshore floating wind turbinein the United States is now afloat, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. The concrete-composite floating platform wind turbine was deployed…
Click to View Live Streaming of VolturnUS Launch Event (Active May 31st at 11:00 AM EST)
General Event Information: The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s launch of VolturnUS 1:8, the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine to be deployed off…
UMaine Developing Offshore Wind Turbines
Habib Dagher, the director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is busy planning the first phase of a “potential $93.2 million deepwater offshore wind demonstration project by…
UMaine wins first phase of $93.2m deepwater floating offshore wind demonstration programme
The UMaine Composites Centre-led team of industry leaders and national laboratories is one of five awardees selected from over 70 competing proposals. In this initial phase, each…
UMaine, NRG Systems, AWS Truepower, Leosphere form wind energy R&D partnership
The University of Maine’s (UMaine) Advanced Structures and Composites Center (Orono Maine) announced Oct. 18 a partnership intended to gather measurements of wind activity at “hub…
Floating Offshore LIDAR System Planned For Gulf Of Maine
The University of Maine’s (UMaine) Advanced Structures and Composites Center, NRG Systems Inc., AWS Truepower LLC, UMaine’s Physical Oceanography Group and Leosphere SAS have established a research…