Cooperative Agreement DESC0023890

This Cooperative Agreement award of $999,323 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) supports Triton Anchor LLC, a small disadvantaged business, in developing a cost-effective, modular anchoring system for offshore renewable energy platforms. The Triton Anchor is designed to utilize a group of commercial off-the-shelf helical piles within a short caisson to provide high-capacity,...

The Pacific Northwest Water Power Program (PNW-WPP) at Maritime Blue Ventures was awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087, Renewable Energy Research and Development) to accelerate the commercialization of marine energy and hydropower technologies. Through this funding, Maritime Blue will integrate the PNW-WPP with its existing Seattle and Tacoma maritime innovation incubators and accelerator...

This National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program Project Grant of $250,000 supports the development of an efficient anchor system for floating offshore wind turbines. The awardee, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station doing business as Tees, will focus on commercializing a new anchor design capable of resisting loads from 15 megawatt or larger wind turbines. Key activities include reduced scale model tests to evaluate anchor insertion and pullout, refining...

The federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) was provided to Rcam Technologies Inc. (doing business as Sperra) to develop ultra-low-cost torpedo anchors for marine energy applications. The project aims to leverage Rcam Technologies' expertise in 3D concrete printing to design and manufacture specialized anchoring structures that can reduce costs and improve deployment capabilities for emerging...

This $497,024 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) aims to investigate a hybrid marine renewable energy solution to power offshore Hawaiian Kahala (Kanpachi) fish farming operations. The University of Hawaii (UH) and Hawaii Ocean Power Solutions LLC (HOPS) will build upon their prior work on the Halona oscillating water column wave energy converter (Halona WEC) to...

This $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) supports technology development and end-to-end laboratory testing and integration of open-source wave energy conversion systems (WECS) with a novel autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) docking and recharging system. The key technological developments include: (1) full system performance analysis of the WECS and AUV...

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 $199,355 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Massachusetts Boston to address fundamental issues in integrating offshore wind energy and other marine energy systems. The key objectives are to: 1) Rigorously evaluate the impact of wake effects and farm-to-farm interactions on the efficiency of using marine space for power production, 2) Identify areas less suited for offshore wind but...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to develop a dynamic load absorber for wave energy converter (WEC) mooring lines. The key objectives are to design, analyze, and validate a load absorber system that can reduce peak loads and fatigue on the mooring system by 50-60%, thereby extending the component life to match the 25-year...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $199,979 Project Grant to Ocean Renewable Power Co Inc. in Portland, Maine to develop "Embedded Instrumentation for Detection of Flow Separation." The funding, which runs from July 22, 2024 to July 21, 2025, supports the company's research and development of advanced instrumentation and technologies for detecting flow separation in marine energy systems. This work aligns with the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program...