Two tidal power proposals (Maine)

[jpak]

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060514mainereports.shtml

(scroll down past falcon artcle)

BUCKSPORT: Tidal Energy Co. applies for permit for turbines study

BUCKSPORT. A Washington D.C.-based start-up company has applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to grant a permit that could lead to the siting of as many as 100 hydroelectric generators in the Penobscot River.

The project conceived by Maine Tidal Energy Co. envisions the installation of submerged "Tidal In Stream Energy Conversion Devices" in the river from a point well to the northwest of Fort Knox along the western side of Verona Island as far as the island's southern tip.

Power transmission lines would come ashore in the vicinity of Bucksport on the western shore of Verona Island south of the Waldo-Hancock Bridge. If the entire project were to be built, the facility could generate as much as 876,000 megawatt hours per year - power enough for 82,000 households.

Maine Tidal also has applied for a permit to study a project in the Kennebec River with half the capacity of its Penobscot River proposal.

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CUTLER: Plan combines tidal power plant, LNG terminal

CUTLER ‹ A new proposal has been added to the list of liquefied natural gas projects put forward for Washington County, this one a combined tidal power plant and LNG terminal at the Navy antenna station in Cutler.

Normand Laberge, a professional engineer of Trescott, said he mailed an application on April 29 to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a preliminary permit to conduct a feasibility study of the site in Little Machias Bay. The 10-page form was submitted on behalf of Tidewalker Associates, of which Laberge is a principal, along with two other people whom he declined to name.

The application seeks permission to study the feasibility of locating a rockfill dam with a clay core in the bay with "emptying/filling gates and similar appurtenances . . . adjacent to a concrete powerhouse near the center of the channel." The applicant estimates the tidal power plant's capacity would be 36 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually.

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[catnhatnh]

1. Two red flags....

A: Tied to an LPG terminal....
B: Declined to name other principals...

Give us our LPG terminal,and the secretive "we" MAY do some sustainable energy......

[rfkrfk]

2. expect the usual NIMBY opposition .n/t

[Dead_Parrot]

3. Might not be too bad...

If they're underwater, they won't be visible from the million-dollar verandas of the morons who oppose cape wind. Fingers crossed...

Although why they have to whack LPG into the equation is a mystery. That will be very visible... :(