BANGOR DAILY NEWS • February 9, 2022
A Portland-based renewable energy company plans to test its technology that generates electricity from river currents at the site of the former Great Northern Paper Co. paper mill in Millinocket. The move by Ocean Renewable Power Co. would make it the second tenant at the former mill site since the nonprofit Our Katahdin bought the old industrial property in 2017. The new testing site would allow the power company to assemble, test and showcase a smaller version of its RivGen device, which generates lower-emission electricity using river currents and connects into existing electrical grids.