Can Maine's Floating Wind Turbines Weather the Political Storm?

Can Maine's Floating Wind Turbines Weather the Political Storm?

When the platform for a prototype floating offshore wind turbine arrived at a dock in Searsport, Maine, on April 11, engineers at the University of Maine were ready to add a tower and a turbine and set it afloat in the Gulf of Maine. The prototype, called the VolturnUS+, was a 1:4 scale model of a 15-megawatt version, and its deployment would mark only the second wind turbine to float in U.S. waters. But on the very same day, university official…