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Eastport may be the site of a $10 million model smart microgrid project developed over the next 5 years if all goes well with future agreeme......
ORPC’s Igiugig-RivGen® Project is featured on the cover of the July issue of Sea Technology magazine. The RivGen® device is pictured as it d......
ORPC is looking at national and state policy shifts in renewable energy supply and storage and identifying opportunities for its own operati......
Why spend $1.7 million to replace an old underwater cable supplying diesel power when you can build something new that’s more cost- and ener......
ORPC Ireland’s Optimor project aims to deliver a multi-MW crossflow tidal power system for deployment in European markets....
The average seventh grader likely isn’t considering a career in hydropower project permitting. A new clean energy career development program......
ORPC produces hydrokinetic power system technology and projects that harness the energy in ocean and river currents to generate clean, predi......
Water has been used as a renewable source of energy for over two thousand years,...
NREL researchers are working with industry, tribal, government, and national laboratory partners to more effectively harness Alaska’s marine......
ORPC’s full-scale testing of a helical blade at the MaREI Centre, NUI Galway...
OES’ Annual Report 2019 includes ORPC's project in Igiugig, Alaska; assessment work at Great Whale River, Quebec; and ORPC’s Horizon 2020 TA......
Captions in French, English and Spanish have been added to ORPC’s new Igiugig-RivGen® video....
Company director Stuart Davies will become head of the renewable energy company following co-founder Chris Sauer's retirement on Jan. 20....
One of Portland’s most well-known entrepreneurs has announced his retirement, just months after helping his energy company land $11 million ......
Maine-based ORPC has closed on commitments for $7.5 million in private equity, allowing it to expand its business development and sales focu......
Portland’s Ocean Renewable Power Co. won a nearly $4 million federal grant to advance its technology to harness power from rivers....
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced that the Dept, of Energy is awarding ORPC a grant of $3,875,859 to develop innovativ......
Residents of Igiugig, a Native village far from roads and off the grid, have tried for years to wean themselves off the diesel that fuels th......
In June 2019, the tiny southwestern Alaska village of Igiugig became the first U.S. tribal entity to receive a Federal Energy Regulatory Com......
A surge of funding is breathing new life into a tidal energy project in False Pass. Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of En......
When you see it floating in the water, you do a double take. The RivGen is an odd looking contraption with giant pontoons and underwater tur......
Residents of Igiugig and other remote areas are struggling with the effects of state government budget cuts from Dunleavy’s line-item vetoes....
This week the Igiugig Village Council and Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) celebrated the launch of the RivGen® Power System, a unique s......
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A tiny Native village in southwest Alaska has turned to an emerging technology to transform the power of a local ri......
A small Southwest Alaska village is trying to integrate the power of an iconic Alaska river into its electric grid without interfering with ......
ORPC, a marine energy company based in Portland, racked up three big wins this month that significantly advance the commercialization of its......
Grant will fund research to develop marine renewable energy project being developed to support rural communities worldwide....
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski R-Alaska, announces today the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the final installation an......
ÉireComposites has completed the turbines for ORPC’s commercial RivGen Power System slated for installation in the Kvichak River, Igiugig, A......
Two Maine companies are finding success in raising capital via online equity crowdfunding platforms....
Power-generating technology piloted in Washington County will soon provide a commercial source of electricity in Alaska....
ORPC has been awarded funding to research a community-scale tidal power/ energy storage system using data from False Pass, Alaska, to develo......
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