Your Maine Guide to our evolving energy economy, and the funding that will fuel it.
All kinds of folks are getting trained and re-trained to make these new composite-type wind blades and weatherize houses and what not. I believe you CAN teach an old dog a new trick or two.
Welcome to Maine's conversation about energy education and what we like to call "TLC", that is: Training, Licensing and Certifications. We will include info on where Mainers can get the specialized education they need to work in our new energy economy, as well as showcasing student and class energy projects. K-12 science teachers are encouraged to share lesson plans here, and we invite university students working on energy research projects to post their works here. Don't forget to send photos!
Later this spring, UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center will test a buoy-based light detection and ranging system, or LiDAR, which can gauge wind speeds at up to 600' above the surface of the ocean. Data from the device can help to determine the best location for offshore wind turbines.
Read the full story in the Bangor Daily News or in Mainebiz.
Trustees for the University of Maine at Farmington gave the green light to a $1.5 million project to heat and cool 50,000 square feet of campus building space using geothermal technology. This fourth geothermal system on the campus will help it to meet its Climate Action Plan goal of eliminating its greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and reducing its GHG output by 20 percent by 2015.
Read more in the Portland Press Herald, in Mainebiz or on UMF's website.
Photo credit: University of Maine Farmington.
The Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine plans to place a one-eighth-scale prototype of a floating deep-sea wind turbine in the harbor off Dyce Head in Castine, sometime in April of 2013. The 20 kilowatt or 27 horsepower turbine, called "VolturnUS", was developed by professor Habib Dagher, who will build its components with engineering students. It will be shipped to Cianbro's facility in Brewer for assembly and thence towed by a tugboat from Maine Maritime Academy to the test site in Castine Harbor.
Read More in the Bangor Daily News.
Kenneth Fletcher has resigned his post as the Director of the Governor's Energy Office and Patrick Woodcock of Hampden, who most recently served as Senator Snowe's senior adviser for energy and environment issues will succeed him on January 7, 2013.
Woodcock, a 2004 graduate of Bowdoin College, faces an uphill challenge to fill Fletcher's shoes, as reported in the Portland Press Herald.
On December 19, 2012, the Maine Energy Education Program (MEEP) announced it had received a grant from the Jane B. Cook 1983 Charitable Trusts in the amount of $12,000 and a $35,000 grant from the Governor's Energy Office. The grants will be used toward funding MEEP's classroom programming and Green Schools Mini Grants in the first half of 2013.
For further information about MEEP's program offerings go here.
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