University of Maine Hosts International Industry Roadmapping Summit To Advance U.S. and Global Floating Offshore Wind Development, in Honor of Late Matthew R. Simmons Earlier in October, the University of Maine hosted the inaugural “Matthew R. Simmons Memorial Summit: A Technology Roadmap for Floating Offshore Wind.” The summit gathered information from various perspectives of platform designers, researchers,…
UMaine completes 56m wind blade test for Gamesa
The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has completed static testing of a 56 m (184 ft) wind-turbine blade for Gamesa. The blade was manufactured in North America and delivered to the University of Maine in late August. The Gamesa blade was the largest tested to date in the UMaine Offshore Wind Laboratory. The…
Maine can claim it’s First to Float a U.S. turbine, and more
The U.S. offshore industry marked a couple milestones with the launch of its first offshore turbine. And not long before that, a barge on Lake Erie took core samples from the lake bottom in preparation of turbine foundations for a wind farm on the U.S. North Coast. On the East Coast, the University of Maine’s…