BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 20, 2020
Gov. Janet Mills said Friday that she plans to create the nation’s first floating offshore wind research farm in the Gulf of Maine, a large step in more than a decade of development in that arena and pitched as a way to meet new state climate goals. The research array is part of an ongoing offshore wind initiative announced in 2019 by the Democratic governor, who has made climate one of her main issues since being elected two years ago. A recent clean energy report from Mills’ office touted offshore wind as a significant opportunity for economic recovery from the coronavirus-induced recession.