URI, UMaine researchers receive $1.2M grant to study floating offshore wind turbines

James Bessette

07/14/2021

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND researchers, along with colleagues from the University of Maine, received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to study the effectiveness of floating offshore wind turbines. / COURTESY ORSTED U.S. OFFSHORE WIND

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Engineers at the University of Rhode Island, along with colleagues from the University of Maine, have been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research program to study floating offshore wind turbines. URI said that offshore wind turbines with fixed foundations built into…