Project Grant DESC0024001

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $336,148 provides funding from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025 to Montana State University for the development of a prototype diode-laser-based Doppler wind lidar for vertical wind profiling in the lower troposphere. The award advances the Geosciences program's goal of increasing understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric sciences. Specifically, the university will conduct modeling to...

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...

The National Science Foundation awarded Activecharge LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an integrated, self-powered sensor node for wind turbine blade monitoring. The one-year project will address technical hurdles such as lack of reliable energy sources and logistical challenges replacing batteries inside blades. Activecharge will prototype a sensor node that reliably harvests electrical voltage from blade...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $249,994 Project Grant under its Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) program to Cornell University. The goal of this 2-year award is to reduce the cost of energy for wind-generated electricity and enhance the reliability of wind turbines by addressing leading edge erosion (LEE), a key challenge facing the wind energy industry. The researchers will take a multi-disciplinary approach to improve forecasting of LEE, advance...

Wbglobalsemi Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop lower cost, mass, and volume wind power converters with grid support capabilities. The project aims to deliver these technologies by the scheduled completion date of July 29, 2022. The award is provided through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports the Office of Science's mission to transform understanding of nature...

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 $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...

The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), awarded a $4,251,000 cooperative agreement to the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) to develop the "WINDWISE" program. WINDWISE aims to advance the Wind Energy Technologies Office's goals by building strong and equitable distributed wind (DW) markets through incentivizing communities to implement transformative, locally generated solutions for reducing soft...

This Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program, CFDA 47.083, provides $149,980 to the University of Maine System to conduct research on the orbital motion dynamics of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) during the installation phase. The interdisciplinary project team will investigate the unique dynamics of partially installed bottom-fixed OWTs using wave tank experiments and high-fidelity numerical...

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...