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| September 29 Public Meeting at Samoset About Location of Offshore Wind Demo Sites | | 9/24/2009 3:34:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article | The Department of Conservation and the State Planning Office are holding a public information meeting regarding possibe offshore wind power demonstration sites next Tuesday, September 29, at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m., and lasts until 9 p.m.
For those excited about potential jobs that the initiative might create, or concerned about the impacts of wind turbines in Maine coastal waters, this will be the last of five public information meetings that have been scheduled in the month of September.
Legislation passed unanimously in June mandates that the Department of Conservation and the State Planning Office work together to identify between one and five demonstration sites in Maine's coastal waters.
The sites will serve as locations for the testing of all the components necessary to develop deep-water, offshore wind power, including floating platforms, anchoring systems, and new lightweight blade composites.
One site also will be designated as a wind energy research center to be operated by the University of Maine.
State agencies are required to identify the sites by the middle of December.
According to state officials, the purpose of the public meeting is to gather information, such as fishing and recreational uses, as well as natural resource constraints, so that exact designation of the sites is done as collaboratively as possible.
More information available at www.maine.gov/doc/initiatives/oceanenergy/oceanenergy.shtml; www.maine.gov/ spo/specialprojects/OETF; and http://offshorewind.net/Other_Pages/Turbine-Foundations.html.
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