15 September 2012

America’s First Ocean Energy Delivered to the Grid

Bangor Hydro Electric Company, Bangor, ME, recently reported that electricity is being delivered to their power grid from Ocean Renewable Power Company’s (ORPC’s) Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project.

This is reportedly the first power from any ocean energy project including offshore wind, wave, and tidal, to be delivered to an electric utility grid in the United States, and it is the only ocean energy project, other than one using a dam, that delivers power to a utility grid anywhere in North, Central ,and South America.

Media reports:

Portland Press Herald: Maine tidal turbine goes online, first in North America (with video) (14 SEP 12)

Bangor Daily News: Electricity flows from ocean turbine to grid for first time in western hemisphere (14 SEP 12)

Background information:

ORPC: Maine Tidal Energy Project

Ocean Renewable Power Company

Bangor Hydro Electric Company

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