The Department of Conservation and the State Planning Office are holding a
public information meeting TONIGHT, Tuesday, September 22, at the Wells High
School Auditorium (200 Sanford Road). The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m., and
lasts until 9:00 p.m.

Legislation passed unanimously in June mandates that the two agencies work
together to identify between one and five demonstration sites in Maine’s
coastal waters. One of the sites may be off the York County coast, near Boon
Island. The sites will serve as locations for the testing of all the
components necessary to develop deep-water, offshore wind power, including
floating platforms, anchoring systems, and new lightweight blade composites.
One site also will be designated as a wind energy research center operated
by the University of Maine. State agencies are required to identify the
sites by the middle of December.