Maine company launches renewable energy system designed to power remote communities around the world

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https://www.timesrecord.com/articles/front-page/maine-company-launches-renewable-energy-system-designed-to-power-remote-communities-around-the-world/

Maine company launches renewable energy system designed to power remote communities around the world

April 18, 2019
By Hannah LaClaire
The Times Record

BRUNSWICK — Maine-based Ocean Renewable Power Co. has already powered more than 30% of the remote Alaskan community of Igiugig, but with the launch of a new marine renewable energy system, it wants to increase its current reach and spread to isolated and indigenous communities around the world.

The RivGen Power System, built at Brunswick Landing, is a fully submerged turbine generator that harnesses the power of river currents to produce energy. The company also built and operated its TidGen Power System, which harnesses tidal power in much the same way, in Cobscook Bay in Lubec and Eastport.

It is “an amazingly imaginative common sense innovation” that will help reduce electric costs and break remote communities’ dependence on diesel fuel, said Gov. Janet Mills at the RivGen System’s commercial launch on Wednesday afternoon.

“It’s a big day for us,” co-founder and CEO Chris Sauer said, adding the company is at work in Quebec and hopes to expand to Southern Chile soon, where its work will “improve people’s lives and environments” by using the system to create clean energy while also opening the door for “deeper penetration of solar and wind technology.”

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Is this thing safe for fish and other aquatic life?
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/162660/fish-tides-and-turbines

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1. build clean cities on higher ground around the world.

or figure out where to put all the refugees.
this is a great start.