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| Wind Seminar Series for Maine Companies Interested in Wind Power Markets | | 11/19/2009 7:17:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article | coming up in January
Maine Wind Industry Seminar Series 2010, a first-ever, three-day conference of leading international composite and wind energy leaders, will be held January 12 to 14 in Portland at the Clarion Hotel, 1230 Congress Street. The cosponsors include the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, the Maine Composites Alliance and the Maine Technology Institute. The series is funded by the U.S. Department of Labor WIRED program and administered under Maine's North Star Alliance. The three-day conference is free and open to all Maine composite companies, engineering and construction companies, boatbuilders and associated companies interested in wind power, and other Maine companies with an interest in wind energy and opportunities for composites in emerging wind power markets.
Renewable energy educators as well as international leaders in the composites industry will lead more than 15 sessions. Specific areas of focus include current industry technology; future market opportunities; design and manufacturing of composite materials for wind power; and installation, maintenance and repair of composite wind blades.
"Never before have industry leaders, in both composites and wind energy, met in one conference to teach and inform Maine's emerging wind industry companies," says Steve Von Vogt, executive director of the Maine Composites Alliance. "The Maine Wind Industry Seminar Series 2010 will be three days of free intensive education."
For more information and to register for the conference, go to www.aewc.umaine.edu or contact Marcy Smith, 581-2125, marcy.smith@umit.maine.edu.
The Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine is a 48,000-square-foot state-of-the-art R&D and testing laboratory currently expanding to include an Advanced Wind Blade Prototyping Facility with the capacity to fabricate and test up to a 55 meter wind blade. The center and a coalition of over 20 industrial and academic partners have recently received $8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop and test offshore wind technologies in the Gulf of Maine. The Maine Composites Alliance (MCA) is a nonprofit trade organization, promoting Maine's leadership in the international composites industry in the areas of alternative energy, infrastructure and boatbuilding. The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) is a state-funded nonprofit corporation that offers early-stage capital and commercialization assistance for the research and development of innovative technology-based projects that create new products, processes and services, generating high-quality jobs across Maine.
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