ORPC Inc. announced today it is partnering with Warbird Capital LLC, a private investment firm specializing in asset-heavy enterprises, to offer tailored leasing solutions to customers interested in ...

Portland-based ORPC Inc. unveiled its first commercial river-power-generation system Wednesday in a public launch ceremony attended by Gov. Janet Mills and 150 people at Brunswick Landing. The company ...

A Maine company announced the commercial launch of a renewable river-driven energy system that it hopes will be used to power remote communities around the world — communities which often rely on ...

In the Yup'ik language, Igiugig's name means "like the throat that swallows water." The Bristol Bay village of about 70 people sits at the head of the mighty Kvichak River. The turquoise waters rush ...

The RivGen commercial generator sitting on the beach of the Kvichak River is massive: Twin turbines connected to two giant pontoons, painted bright blue and yellow and shining in the midday sun.

Fabricators have completed work on the pontoons and chassis for a second tidal river power system, called RivGen, for Ocean Renewable Power Co. of Maine. Its first system has been generating ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A tiny Native village in southwest Alaska has turned to an emerging technology to transform the power of a local river into a sustainable energy source that’s expected to free ...

Developers of a grid-connected tidal energy project in a remote region of southwestern Alaska have received a $2.3-million award from the Dept. of Energy to continue work on a cross-flow river current ...

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