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USM Corporate Partners Host Angus King at Monthly Breakfast Meeting Wed. May 14

May 13, 2008

The USM Corporate Partners will be hosting Angus King at their monthly breakfast meeting (see description below) this Wednesday, May 14, in the Woodbury Campus Center, Bedford St., Portland.

Doors open at 7:15; breakfast served at 7:30; presentations begin by 8.

Here's the description of King's presentation.

Call us at 780-4200 with any questions.

Presenter — Angus King

Oil has tripled in price in the last eight years; if and when that happens again, Maine will face the most daunting challenge in the state's history. With 80 percent of the state's homes heated with oil, more than half of its electricity generated from natural gas, and one of the most far-flung populations in the country, Maine is almost uniquely vulnerable to the impending energy catastrophe.

And yet, sweeping across the gulf of Maine is an enormous and inexhaustible energy supply: the Saudi Arabia of wind. Governor King will outline the magnitude of the national energy challenge with a particular focus on Maine, and the potential of off-shore wind as a major part of the solution. King will outline some of the unsolved technical challenges facing this idea —underwater transmission and deep water siting, for example — and propose a national effort to resolve them before it's too late.

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