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Monday, 03 May 2021 ORPC, Inc., a developer of clean, renewable power systems that harness free-flowing rivers and tidal currents, has been selected by the Maine International Trade Center (MITC) as Innovator of the Year. ORPC’s RivGen® unit installed in Alaska is the longest operating river current energy converter in the Americas.  A second unit will be installed there this summer. By providing fully renewable baseload power supply, the marine energy industry, is now ready to play a critical and essential role in achieving a 100 percent clean energy economy and net-zero emissions. Cou...

By Staff ORPC Inc., a marine renewable energy business based in Portland, will receive $3.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a device that converts energy from river currents into electric currents. The grant, through the DOE Water Power Technologies Office, will fund the building, testing and operation of a modular current energy converter, according to a news release Tuesday. The work will expand earlier development ORPC began in 2019 with a $350,000 DOE grant. Modular current energy converters ultimately could allow renewable energy production from river ...