Project Grant 20193361029739

This $290,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to advance offshore wind energy technologies. The key objectives of this 4-year project are to: Develop rare-earth-free magnets to reduce reliance on foreign suppliers for offshore wind turbines. Design an AI-driven control system to improve the stability of individual offshore wind turbines. Develop spatial and temporal models to better manage distributed offshore wind...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $255,999 awarded on August 15, 2022 will fund the development of a disruptive floating wind turbine platform optimized for low cost and extensive deployment through July 31, 2023. Under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), T-Omega Wind Inc. will adapt the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's simulation software to characterize the unique motions of an innovative floating wind turbine system operating in a...

The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $177,909 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Bergey Windpower Company, LLC on July 10, 2023. The award supports the development of a "HIGH-PERFORMANCE SMALL WIND TURBINE BLADE FOR MASS PRODUCTION" with an expected completion date of April 9, 2024. The Project Grant aims to advance small wind turbine technology through the design and prototyping of a high-performance blade...

Windlift Inc., a wind energy engineering and software company, received a $199,879 project grant from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a floating offshore platform for their Windlift Airborne Power Generator system. This project aims to explore cost-effective deployment of Windlift's airborne wind energy technology. Windlift has previously provided research, development, testing, and evaluation services related to airborne...

This $999,978 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Lehigh University will advance the development and demonstration of efficient, resilient, and cost-effective floating offshore wind turbine systems. The key activities include: Creating new concepts for reducing floating offshore wind turbine platform motions using innovations like tuned-mass dampers and bio-inspired oscillating hydrofoil hydrokinetic turbines that can...

This $19,453,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) was made to Kent Houston Offshore Engineering LLC for the project titled "Passively Controlled Floating Wind Platforms for Low-Cost Energy". The award will fund the company's development of innovative floating wind turbine platforms designed to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy generation. The project aims to advance floating...

This $265,971 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is dedicated to advancing the fundamental understanding of the complex performance and environmental impacts of floating offshore wind (FOW) technology. The key objectives of this 3-year research project include: 1) developing a novel high-fidelity computational model to simulate the complex dynamics of FOW turbines; 2) studying the individual and system-level performance of...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) award through the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program supports fundamental research to discover a new class of polymers called Covalent Adaptable Networks (CANs) and their composites for sustainable manufacturing and recycling of wind turbine blades. The project aims to establish a systematic framework to design, synthesize, and test these reversible CAN materials that combine the stability of thermosets and malleability of thermoplastics. This...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $300,000 to Mississippi State University (MSU) to develop a reliable and transparent predictive condition monitoring system for distributed wind energy in rural areas using permissioned blockchain technology. The key products and services to be delivered through this 2-year award include: Collaborative federated learning algorithms for privacy-preserving condition...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $365,447 to the University of Massachusetts to conduct research on modeling the influence of turbulence on flow-induced instabilities of large flexible structures, with a focus on wind turbine blades. The project aims to develop a novel dynamic model for fluid-structure interaction systems that can accurately account for the effects of turbulence on the onset and post-critical behavior...