The
company’s
Cobscook
Bay
project,
located
off
Eastport
in
water
depths
of
33
metres,
is
built
around
its
150kW
TidGen
device
–
development
of
which
was
underpinned
by
a
$10m
investment
from
the
US
Department
of
Energy
(DoE).
In
April,
the
Maine
Public
Utilities
Commission
gave
the
green-light
to
20-year
power
purchase
agreements
(PPAs)
for
the
project
with
the
Central
Maine
Power
Company,
Bangor
Hydro
Electric
(BHE)
and
Maine
Public
Service
Company.
Those
deals
are
the
first
long-term
tidal
energy
PPAs
in
the
US.
ORPC’s
cross-flow
device,
which
measures
29
metres…
