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By Peter Brennan

An ambitious piece of offshore wind legislation received unanimous support from Buy Ambien Online Cheap the Maine Utilities and Energy Committee this week after it was amended to Buy Ambien Online Cheap focus on deepwater wind harnessed further from the shore by floating turbines.

LD 1810, An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force, was originally heard by the Buy Ambien Online Cheap committee on Mar. 11 and had been the subject of intense debate for Buy Ambien Online Cheap the past two weeks.

The amended version of LD 1810 would allow supporters of offshore wind energy, including the Buy Ambien Online Cheap state and the University of Maine, to buy it at an Buy Ambien Online Cheap increased rate to help defray the higher costs associated with production.  This option would appear on electric bills as the “Ocean Wind Green Standard Offer.”

The bill also places emphasis on developing wind farms in deep water, more than Buy Ambien Online Cheap ten miles offshore, to counteract local concerns about the impact of near shore wind turbines.

The amendment that Buy Ambien Online Cheap was eventually accepted by the committee was drafted by the University of Maine. It garnered the Buy Ambien Online Cheap support of the fishing and lobster industries when they learned that Buy Ambien Online Cheap the amendment would focus on the development of deep-water projects and Buy Ambien Online Cheap remove the incentives for near-shore wind farms, where the majority of fishing and Buy Ambien Online Cheap lobstering takes place.

The emphasis on deepwater wind will be Buy Ambien Online Cheap economically and culturally advantageous, according to Dr. Habib Dagher, director of the Buy Ambien Online Cheap AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center and Bath Ironworks Professor of Structural Engineering at the Buy Ambien Online Cheap University of Maine.

“Class 7 wind is Buy Ambien Online Cheap available 20 miles offshore in the Gulf of Maine, that is Buy Ambien Online Cheap where we need to put the turbines” said Dagher. “The wind is Buy Ambien Online Cheap much better, and public acceptance will not be as much of a Buy Ambien Online Cheap problem.”

Maine is Buy Ambien Online Cheap attempting to position itself as the hub of deepwater wind technology development. The lab that Buy Ambien Online Cheap Dr. Dagher oversees at the University of Maine was selected out of 160 entrants and Buy Ambien Online Cheap awarded a $12.4M Department of Commerce grant to Buy Ambien Online Cheap advance deepwater floating turbine technology. When the current lab is expanded, Dagher will have Buy Ambien Online Cheap the capability to manufacture and test floating turbine components under one roof.