According to its developers, the University of Maine-ledDeepCwind consortium, VolturnUS yesterday became the first offshore turbine todeliver power to a grid in the US – or anywhere else in the Americas.

The 1:8-scale model has been installed in 24-metres of water off Maine to gather data to de-risk theconcept, with a view to building a $96m deepwater pilot farm made up of a pairof 6MW models by 2016.

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