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The Center for Carbon-free Power Integration (CCPI) conducts research, publishes, and is a catalyst for knowledge-based partnerships--all related to three aspects of power: power production from utility-scale geophysical sources, such as wind and ocean currents, changes in transmission planning to accommodate carbon-free power sources, and storage needed to support large-scale carbon-free power systems.

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News
On October 19, 2009, the University of Delaware and Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica signed an agreement to install a 2-megawatt Gamesa wind turbine at the Lewes Campus of UD. The signing ceremony was attended by several important Delaware leaders including Governor Jack Markell, DNREC Secretary Collin O’Mara and City of Lewes Mayor Jim Ford.
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The University was represented by President Patrick Harker, CEOE Dean Nancy Targett and Professors Jeremy Firestone and Willett Kempton. The Gamesa turbine, which will stand 400 ft tall from its base to the tip of a blade at peak rotation, is scheduled to be installed in 2010. (Full Article in UDaily)

Signing the agreement are, from left, UD President Patrick Harker,
Gamesa North America CEO Dirk Matthys, and College of Earth,
Ocean, and Environment Dean Nancy Targett.(Image Credit: UDaily)