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June 9, 2016

French company partners with UMaine-led wind farm consortium

File photo / James McCarthy Habib Dagher, director of UMaine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center, in front of the VolturnUS prototype wind turbine deployed off the shores of Castine in 2014.

French defense company DCNS Group said it will help develop a floating offshore wind farm in collaboration with University of Maine-led consortium, Maine Aqua Ventus, the Portland Press Herald reported.

The project in May came back into contention for a $40 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy, Mainebiz reported at the time, along with two other proposals.

Maine Aqua Ventus aims to build a pilot, 12-megawatt floating offshore wind farm off of Monhegan Island that could be a step toward large-scale wind farms and a new clean-energy resource to the Northeastern United States, the newspaper said.

DCNS builds submarines and naval ships in addition to owning OpenHydro, an Irish company developing tidal power turbines, according to the newspaper.

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