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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it intends to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development.” This opportunity will fund $48 million of projects that address several major areas of need for offshore wind, including accelerating research and development of offshore wind platforms, expanding the reach of the domestic supply chain, improving offshore wildlife protection through new monitoring technologies, and advancing U.S. academic leadership in floating offshore wind.
Together, successful projects addressing the following topic areas that may be included in the FOA will speed up the use of wind power off U.S. coasts and contribute to a robust U.S. clean energy economy driven by a carbon-free power sector.
Topic Area 1: Floating Offshore Wind Platform Research and Development
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Subtopic 1a: Refinement and Innovation in Floating Platform Design, Manufacturing, and Deployment
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Subtopic 1b: Next-Generation Integrated Turbine/Platform Research
Topic Area 2: Innovation for Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Foundation Types and Supporting Infrastructure
Topic Area 3: Technology Advancement for Bird and Bat Research Offshore
Topic Area 4: Development of a Manufacturing and Supply Chain Offshore Wind Consortium Based in the Great Lakes Region
Topic Area 5: Floating Offshore Wind Center of Excellence
Topic Area 6: Protecting the Future Offshore Wind Fleet against Lightning
DOE is also compiling a Teaming Partner List that allows organizations that may wish to participate on a project to express their interest to other applicants and to explore potential partnerships.
This is a Notice of Intent (NOI) only. DOE may issue the described funding opportunity announcement (FOA), may issue a FOA that is significantly different than the described FOA, or DOE may not issue a FOA at all.
Learn more about other open funding opportunities within DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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