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| Description | English: The University of Maine-developed VolturnUS 1:8 is a 65-foot-tall floating turbine prototype that is 1:8th the scale of a 6-megawatt (MW), 450-foot rotor diameter design. The VolturnUS 1:8 was launched into the Penobscot River in Brewer, ME, where it was towed and anchored in Castine, ME for 18 months in 90 feet of water. On June 13, 2013, the turbine was energized and began delivering electricity through an undersea cable to the Central Maine Power electricity grid, making VolturnUS 1:8 the first grid-connected offshore wind turbine in the Americas |
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