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DOE offers funding opportunity for advanced wind R&D concepts

By Michelle Froese | July 18, 2018

Ideas, plan, action

The full announcement with Q&As can be found on the EERE Exchange website.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office has released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled, “Advanced Wind R&D to Reduce Costs and Environmental Impacts.”

This FOA will provide up to $6 million in funding to support efforts aimed at catalyzing technical and operational solutions to reduce environmental compliance costs and environmental impacts of land-based and offshore wind turbines.

The FOA will support research under three Topic Areas:

  • Topic Area 1 ($2 million): Reducing costs and environmental impacts associated with bat curtailment at wind plants through optimized curtailment strategies that align curtailment with periods of highest risk
  • Topic Area 2 ($2 million): Developing advanced components and other instrumentation for advanced bat deterrent technologies.
  • Topic Area 3 ($2 million): Developing offshore wind instrumentation for environmental monitoring and mitigation, such as tools that monitor blade collision or that mitigate the impacts of noise from siting and construction activities.

Concept papers will be due August 15, 2018, and are required for submission of a full application for this funding opportunity.


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Comments

  1. Kari Appa says

    August 6, 2018 at 8:49 pm

    The conventional Radial Bladed Wind Turbine Design results in massive rotor resulting in limited power rating ~ 12 MW/unit, far short of DOE suggested 50 MW rated unit.
    Our suggested rotor design , US 9,537,371 B2, Jan 3. 2017, is possible to meet this goal at minimum cost of power.
    Please contact us for detailed information.

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