Despite setbacks and delays, the UMaine project is likely to be the first floating commercial-scale wind farm in the U.S.
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Tux Turkel, staff writer at the Portland Press Herald, wrote: “UMaine’s bid to be a player in the emerging offshore wind industry has suffered repeated setbacks. Most notably, it was hobbled during the administration of former Gov. Paul LePage, a wind power critic, and a skeptical, LePage-appointed chairman at Public Utilities Commission. Despite that, Maine Aqua Ventus remains poised to become the first commercial-scale floating wind farm in the United States, according to a federal energy expert who has followed the project for years.”
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