Japanese delegates visit Maine for tidal power insight
Delegates from Japan are visiting the University of Maine this week to learn more about tidal power, which they hope will provide 30% of their island country’s power by 2030.
The Bangor Daily News reported this is the second year delegates from Japan have made the trip for the Marine Energy International Symposium in Orono. The country, still reeling from the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster, hopes offshore tidal and wind power will be able to displace some of the power it generates from nuclear reactors.
Kei Sato, president of Hirosaki University in Aomori Prefecture, said Monday that his university wants to help lead a push for research into tidal and offshore wind. The delegates are looking to Maine for advice from companies like Ocean Renewable Power Co., which put the United States’ first grid-connected tidal generator in the water last year, and from the University of Maine, which is leading a consortium of companies in developing a floating offshore wind turbine.
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