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- 6/20/13 - 2013 New England Regional SBIR/STTR Summer Session
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- 6/25/13 - TechStart and Seed Grant Webinar This webinar will focus on the application…
- 6/26/13 - Internet Marketing: SEO and Beyond for Business Success Presented by the Maine International Trade…
- 7/2/13 - TechStart Grant Deadline All applications due by 5pm
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- 7/9/13 - Development Loan Deadline All applications due by 5pm.
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- 8/20/13 - Seed Grant Deadline Applications Due by 5 p.m.
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Innovators in the News
9/13/10 - Ocean Renewable Power Co. Awarded $10 Million in US Dept Of Energy Grant
from Smart Energy News.
Portland, Maine – Maine Governor John E. Baldacci announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Ocean Renewable Power Co. (ORPC) a grant of $10 million to fund a commercial-scale tidal energy development project in Cobscook Bay, which opens to the Bay of Fundy.
ORPC is partnering with the University of Maine and the U.S. Coast Guard on the project. The company has also received financial support from the Maine Technology Institute.
In the 1930s, Cobscook Bay was part of the Quoddy Project to generate electricity from its tidal flow, but that project was aborted.
Founded in 2004, ORPC develops projects that use river and ocean energy to produce electricity. In Maine alone, the company says, its projects have already brought nearly $5 million into the state economy, and have created or sustained more than 70 jobs. ORPC said it expects potential investment in tidal energy to reach $1 billion or more in both Maine and Alaska in the next five to seven years.
In July 2010, ORPC was awarded $750,000 from DOE to refine “cross flow” turbine technology to be used in underwater generators.
MTI News
- 5/22/13 - Blackstone initiative embedded into MTI (Reprint from MaineBiz 5/22/2013) - Blackstone Accelerates Growth, the $3 million effort to…
- 4/30/13 - Maine Technology Institute will present a second round of workshops in their statewide campaign working with Maine community banks to reach and grow Maine technology-based businesses For Immediate Release
April 30, 2013
Contact: Catherine Marin, 207-203-2071
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- 6/17/13 - Looking Out for the Gorillas Looking Out for the Gorillas
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- 3/25/13 - Culture Value One of the objectives we have at the Maine Technology Institute is to help sustain a culture of…