Article - First Offshore Wind Turbine Put in Place

[Jim_ME]

This is a new development here in the US for clean (no-carbon) renewable energy...

MPBN Article

It will create some new navigation issues here in the Gulf of Maine [and other areas as it expands].

Personally, I'm glad to see it.

[Jim_ME]

A follow-up article...

History Made as Floating Turbine off Maine Coast Begins Feeding Grid...

"...the prototype turbine, if successful, could foreshadow a future where hundreds of offshore windmills produce electricity - at competitive rates - for customers all over New England."

A previous governor who went into the industry has called the Gulf of Maine with its steady winds a potential Saudi Arabia of wind power.