On March 31, FERC granted a permit for Edgartown and the University of Massachusetts to study the feasibility of the tidal-energy project, ruling that the town was entitled under federal regulations to get the first permit for the waters.
According to the permit, the Edgartown-Nantucket Tidal Energy Plant Water Power Project calls for 50 ocean-current, turbine-generation units, with a 3-mile-long transmission line that would carry the electricity to land to be sold to local utilities.
Isn't RI doing the same?
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