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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award to Aikido Technologies Inc. for $275,000 supports the detailed engineering of a 100kW self-upending floating wind platform. The broader impact of this SBIR Phase I project is the development of a next-generation floating wind platform that could dramatically reduce the time, cost, and equipment/vessel requirements of installing commercial-scale floating wind farms. The key...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Cooperative Agreement award, funded under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, provides $999,496 to Rcam Technologies Inc. to advance the development of a 3D printed concrete anchor for floating offshore wind turbines. The key objectives are to: 1) Develop optimized anchor designs and mooring line connections manufactured using 3D concrete printing, 2) Fabricate and validate anchor prototypes through structural testing and...
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...
Precast Systems Engineering, LLC received a $274,956 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). The award will fund the development of an innovative, bio-inspired, ultra-high performance concrete foundation system to support offshore wind turbines through December 2023. The proposed foundation system aims to provide technical and cost improvements over foundations currently used for offshore wind energy...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $255,052 Project Grant to Neptunya Ocean Power LLC through the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a novel mixed-mode ocean energy converter. The award will support research and prototype construction from January 2023 through December 2023 to design an offshore renewable energy device that reduces costs through lower weight, simplified assembly and installation, and improved storm resistance compared to...
This $1.5 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering will fund the development of a multi-domain, multi-scale, policy-aware digital twin modeling framework for offshore wind energy infrastructure from 2023 to 2025. The primary products will be an extensible and customizable joint modeling framework to enable short, medium, and long-term modeling, learning, and assessment of offshore wind farms through the integration of measured...
The federal Project Grant award, DESC0023889, was issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science (under CFDA 81.049 Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) to Triton Anchor LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, in the amount of $206,400 on July 10, 2023. The funding will support the development of an "Innovative Keel-Plate Quick Connector for Floating Platform Mooring and Cables". This project aims to advance the design and implementation of a...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to Portland State University (PSU) totaling $330,669 will develop and apply novel computational and experimental tools to study complex fluid dynamics interactions between floating wind turbine wakes, prevailing winds, and ocean waves. Key goals include: (i) Developing improved surface flux parameterizations for large eddy simulations (LES) of the marine boundary layer above ocean waves, using a...
This $399,968 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to The Johns Hopkins University supports a collaborative research effort to develop improved computational and experimental tools for studying the complex fluid dynamic interactions between floating wind turbines, winds, and ocean waves. The key objectives are to: (i) develop enhanced surface flux parameterizations for large eddy simulations of the marine boundary layer, (ii)...