MAINE MONITOR • March 25, 2023
After being dormant in its tidal power operations in the Cobscook Bay area for a decade, Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) is gearing up to again begin testing commercially viable turbine generator units off Eastport this year. Stuart Davies, who has been ORPC’s CEO since 2020 after Chris Sauer retired, was in the city to explain the company’s plans on March 14. Beginning in early May, ORPC will deploy for a month an Advanced TidGen device with a single turbine at its site in Cobscook Bay, using the existing bottom support frame, and then at the end of this year or the beginning of next year will deploy it again for a 12-month period.