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Milestones
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All Milestones and Stepping Stones
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: Major Milestones
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: Stepping Stones
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Mar. 2013
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ORPC submits first annual environmental report for commercial, grid-connected tidal energy project in the U.S. and North America. Results indicate no observed adverse interaction with the marine environment.
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Mar. 2013
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The Associated General Contractors of America presents CPM Constructors with a Build America Award for work on ORPC's Maine Tidal Energy Project.
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Feb. 2013
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ORPC is named to Fast Company's Top 10 List of the World's Most Innovative Energy Companies.
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Jan. 2013
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The first longterm power purchase agreement for hydrokinetic power in the U.S. for the Maine Tidal Energy Project is executed between ORPC and Bangor Hydro Electric Company.
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Nov. 2012
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Sierra Club of Maine honors ORPC with 2012 Business Leader for the Environment award.
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Nov. 2012
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New England Clean Energy Council honors ORPC with Emerging Company of the Year Award.
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Sep. 2012
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Bangor Hydro Electric Company verifies that electricity is being delivered to their power grid from ORPC's Cobscook Bay Project. This is the first power from any ocean energy project including offshore wind, wave and tidal to be delivered to an electric utility grid in the U.S., and it is the only ocean energy project, other than one using a dam, that delivers power to a utility grid anywhere in the Americas.
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Aug. 2012
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ORPC completes installation of the first TidGen™ Power System at the Cobscook Bay project site, including the on-shore station on Seward Neck, Lubec.
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Jul. 2012
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ORPC dedicates the first TidGen™ turbine generator unit (TGU) at an Eastport, Maine ceremony attended by US Dept. of Energy and FERC officials, national press, over 200 Lubec and Eastport community members and industry colleagues from around the world.
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Apr. 2012
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The Maine Public Utilities Commission approves the terms of the first longterm power purchase agreements for hydrokinetic power in the U.S. for ORPC's Maine Tidal Energy Project.
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Feb. 2012
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ORPC receives its FERC Pilot Project license for Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project
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Feb. 2012
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ORPC receives a General Permit for the Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project from the State of Maine, the first such permit issued for tidal energy.
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Jan. 2012
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FERC issues its Environmental Assessment for the Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project concluding with a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)
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Oct. 2011
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ORPC officially retires the beta TGU and removes it from the Energy Tide 2
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Sep. 2011
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Final Pilot Project license application submitted to FERC for first grid-connected TidGen™ Power System
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Aug. 2011
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ORPC presents letter to Eastport City Council documenting almost $3.4 million spent by ORPC on payroll, contractors, and other goods and services in Maine's Washington County since 2007.
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Aug. 2011
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ORPC and Hall Spars and Rigging enter into a long term agreement for manufacturing and supply of ORPC's ADCF turbines using advanced composite materials and manufacturing processes.
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Jul. 2011
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ORPC Nova Scotia Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC, is formed and is ORPC's first international company.
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Jun. 2011
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ORPC is awarded a $2,000,000 grant from the Alaska Renewable Energy Fund by Alaska Energy Authority for our Cook Inlet Tidal Energy Project.
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Jun. 2011
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ORPC hosts 300 members of the public and EnergyOcean International 2011 Conference attendees for guided tours of the Energy Tide 2 and the Beta TidGen™ Power System during a week-long visit to Portland, Maine.
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Jun. 2011
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ORPC named Technology Company of the Year by the Technology Association of Maine.
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May. 2011
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ORPC announces we have reached the milestone of creating or retaining more than 100 jobs statewide in Maine and spending over $8 million on goods and services in 13 of Maine's 16 counties since 2007.
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May. 2011
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ORPC and Homer Electric Association formally agree to explore a tidal energy project in Cook Inlet near Kenai, Alaska (at East Foreland).
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May. 2011
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ORPC and Fundy Tidal Inc. agree to jointly develop tidal energy projects in the Bay of Fundy in Digby County, Nova Scotia.
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Dec. 2010
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ORPC's Beta TidGen™ Project is officially concluded after meeting or exceeding all design, operational and environmental objectives over several months of operation.
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Dec. 2010
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ORPC and Perry Marine & Construction (PMC) sign agreement for PMC to provide construction management, fabrication, assembly and deployment services for ORPC's Maine Tidal Energy Project.
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Dec. 2010
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Beta TidGen™ Power System project is completed, meeting or exceeding all design expectations.
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Nov. 2010
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In the first-ever use of tidal energy by a federal agency, ORPC completes delivery of tidal power to U.S. Coast Guard Station Eastport, Maine over a 60-day period.
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Oct. 2010
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Maine Technology Asset Fund awards ORPC $1,260,000 for our Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project.
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Sep. 2010
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U.S. Department of Energy awards ORPC $160,000 as sub-recipient of a grant to Scientific Solutions, Inc. for development of the AAM system.
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Sep. 2010
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ORPC wins $10,000,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for our Cobscook Bay Tidal Energy Project.
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Sep. 2010
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U.S. Department of Energy awards ORPC $240,000 for abrasion testing of critical components of hydrokinetic devices performed by the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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Aug. 2010
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ORPC's Beta TidGen™ Power System, the largest ocean energy device ever installed in U.S. waters, generates electricity at full design capacity through the full range of tidal current velocities encountered.
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Aug. 2010
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ORPC partners with Scientific Solutions to develop an underwater Active Accoustic Monitoring (AAM) system for the ocean energy industry.
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Aug. 2010
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U.S. Department of Energy awards ORPC $750,000 for refinement of cross flow turbine hydrofoils (STTR Phase II).
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Aug. 2010
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ORPC opens its current office in Anchorage.
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Aug. 2010
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Alaska Denali Commission awards ORPC $830,325 for our RivGen™ Power System.
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Jul. 2010
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ORPC and Comprehensive Power Inc. enter into a long term agreement for development and supply of ORPC's underwater permanent magnet generators.
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Jul. 2010
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U.S. Department of Energy awards ORPC $75,000 as sub-recipient of a grant to the University of Maine, Maine Tidal Power Initiative.
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Jun. 2010
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ORPC named New Technology of the Year by the Technology Association of Maine.
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Jun. 2010
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ORPC presents Eastport (Maine) City Council with the news that as of June 2010 we have spent more than $2 million on payroll, contractors, goods and services in Eastport and Washington County since 2007.
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Apr. 2010
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The New York Times publishes a full page story on ORPC on Earth Day authored by their science writer, Henry Fountain.
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Mar. 2010
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ORPC launches our Beta TidGen™ Power System, the largest ocean energy device ever deployed in the U.S., aboard our world-class research vessel, the Energy Tide 2.
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Mar. 2010
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ORPC launches the Beta TidGen™ Power System in Maine, the largest ocean energy device ever deployed in the U.S.
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Feb. 2010
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Maine Technology Institute awards ORPC $285,000 for our DOE Mooring Project.
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Feb. 2010
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U.S. Department of Energy awards ORPC $150,000 for refinements of our cross flow turbine hydrofoils (STTR Phase I).
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Jan. 2010
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ORPC completes manufacturing (by U.S. Windblade) and unveils the first all-composite water turbines ever manufactured in the U.S.
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Dec. 2009
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ORPC moves into its current headquarter office on Exchange Street in Portland.
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Oct. 2009
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The U.S. Dept. of Energy awards ORPC $1,034,534 for designing and testing a mooring system for hydrokinetic devices that are suspended in the water column in reversing tidal currents (DOE Mooring Project.)
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Sep. 2009
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The U.S. Department of Energy awards ORPC $600,000 to use a new combination of monitoring technologies to collect data on patterns of marine mammal distribution in Cook Inlet, Alaska, with special emphasis on the endangered beluga whale.
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Sep. 2009
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ORPC wins the contract from the U.S. Coast Guard for delivery of tidal energy from the Beta TidGen™ Project.
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Jun. 2009
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ORPC receives the Company Pioneer Award, and Patrick McGinnis, our Director of Systems Engineering, is awarded the Technology Pioneer Award at the 2009 Energy Ocean Conference in Rockport, Maine.
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Jun. 2009
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ORPC forms partnership with Caithness Development, significantly expanding ORPC's financial, technical and management resources, completing its Series A funding round.
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Jun. 2009
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Maine Technology Asset Fund awards ORPC $806,138 for our Beta TidGen™ Project.
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Jun. 2009
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Caithness Development becomes ORPC's partner
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Dec. 2008
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Maine Technology Institute invests $150,000 in ORPC under their Accelerated Commercialization Fund.
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Dec. 2008
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ORPC successfully concludes its yearlong testing program of the prototype TGU, having firmly established the technical feasibility of the TGU design.
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Oct. 2008
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ORPC hires our first four employees in Eastport and Portland, Maine.
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Sep. 2008
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ORPC completes its "Angel" funding rounds at $5.5 million
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Apr. 2008
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ORPC's prototype TGU becomes the first hydrokinetic energy device to generate electricity from tidal currents that come from the Bay of Fundy (in Cobscook Bay and Western Passage, Maine.)
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Apr. 2008
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ORPC opens first headquarters office in Portland, Maine.
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Apr. 2008
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Technical feasibility of TGU design is proven during the Prototype TGU Demonstration Project in Maine
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Jan. 2008
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Maine Technology Institute awards ORPC $211,200 for our Prototype TGU Demonstration Project.
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Dec. 2007
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ORPC launches the Prototype TGU Demonstration Project and commences testing of our prototype TGU aboard our first research vessel, the Energy Tide 1, in Western Passage and Cobscook Bay, Maine, near Eastport.
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Oct. 2007
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ORPC opens its first incubator office in Portland, Maine at the Maine Center for Enterprise Development on the campus of the University of Southern Maine.
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Aug. 2007
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ORPC opens its first office in Maine in Eastport.
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Jul. 2007
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ORPC opens its very first office in an incubator for start-up companies at the Advanced Technology & Manufacturing Center of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in Fall River, MA.
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Jul. 2007
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Massachusetts Technology Collaborative awards ORPC a $240,00 seed loan for the Prototype TGU Demonstration Project.
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Jun. 2007
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ORPC wins $300,000 from the Maine Technology Institute for its Prototype TGU Demonstration Project.
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Jun. 2006
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ORPC submits first Preliminary Permits applications to FERC (Cobscook Bay, Western Ppassage and Cook Inlet).
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Jan. 2006
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ORPC completes cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with U.S. Navy (NSWC-CD) and TGU design concept adopted.
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Jan. 2006
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TGU design concept is completed and adopted
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Sep. 2004
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Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC is formed
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Sep. 2004
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Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC is founded in Florida.
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Jul. 2004
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Initial ocean current technology, resource and market study is initiated.
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