DOE Opens Applications for $28M to Accelerate Wind Energy Deployment
Eligible applicants: higher education institutions, forprofits, nonprofits, states, local governments, tribal entities. Applications are due: March 10, 2023.
Announcement Type: Request for Applications (the program is now accepting applications)
Opportunity: Key Deployment Challenges for Offshore, Land-Based, and Distributed Wind (WETO)
Overview and Eligible Uses:
DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) is soliciting applications to support solutions to several key challenges to accelerating wind energy deployment. This FOA consists of four Topic Areas. Topic Areas 1 and 3 include Subtopic Areas.
High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) for Offshore Wind.
Understand gaps in U.S. HVDC standards and begin addressing them by developing a benchmark system and proposing and revising standards.
Develop HVDC controls and identify functional requirements to address multi-terminal HVDC deployment barriers
Develop HVDC curriculum for education and workforce training.
Advancing Deployment of Distributed (ADD) Wind. Develop innovative zoning and permitting processes to make distributed wind (DW) more accessible to community members in localities where DW can be deployed cost-effectively and equitably to support community-based energy transition.
Offshore Wind Energy Social Science Research.
Social science research that characterizes the impacts of offshore wind development on affected communities through time.
Connect communities with the full offshore wind development process through community-driven, collaborative capacity building.
Bat Deterrent Technology Development. Advance these technologies through behavioral research, field testing, and hardware development.
Amount: Grants of up to $3M for up to $28M in total funding
Award Type: Competitive grant / cooperative agreement
Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education; For-profit entities; Non-profit entities; and State and local governmental entities, and tribal nations
Key Dates:
Concept papers are due on January 20, 2023
Full applications are due on March 10, 2023.
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