The Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) gave an initial consent to Maine Aqua Ventus I offshore wind project yesterday.
Voting 2:1, the PUC approved the terms of an agreement between the state and the project’s developers, the Associated Press informs.
This will put the project on the path to compete for a USD 47 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.
“We’re very happy with the approval,” Portland Press Herald quotes Jeff Thaler, an assistant counsel at the University of Maine , as saying. “We now will continue discussions with the PUC staff and local interests to finalize the term sheet.”
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Offshore WIND Staff, January 15, 2014; Image: Maine Aqua Ventus