Salazar made the comments while touring the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, whose Offshore Wind Laboratory is developing a prototype one-third scale wind turbine that it will test in July 2012 off Monhegan Island, about 22km from the mainland.
Maine is the only US state with offshore wind-energy plans that will rely exclusively on floating turbines, in recognition that water depths off its coast preclude use of existing foundation technology, or any substructure concepts proposed for development this decade.
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