Waves breaking on the back shore of Great Cranberry Island, Maine. |
In Maine, eight hydrokinetic tidal projects have won preliminary permits from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Preliminary permits represent the first step toward earning a license to build and operate a project. Once a developer receives a preliminary permit for a site, that developer has the exclusive right for three years to file an application for a full license at that site. Preliminary permits don't authorize project construction or operation, but rather reserve a developer's claim to a particular site to allow time for studying the engineering and business aspects of the project.
The eight Maine hydrokinetic projects with preliminary permits are:
- Town of Wiscasset Tidal Resources, 10 MW on the Sheepscot River
- Shearwater Design's Homeowner Tidal Power Elec Gen, 60 kW on the Kennebec River
- The Power Company's Damariscotta Tidal project, 250 kW on the Damariscotta River
- Tidewalker Associates' Half Moon Tidal Energy project, 9 MW on Passamaquoddy Bay
- three projects by Ocean Renewable Power Company:
- Cobscook Bay at 750 kW
- Western Passage Ocgen at 1.2 MW
- Kendall Head at 1.2 MW
- Pennamaquan Tidal Power on the Pennamaquan River at 21.1 MW
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