The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technology Office (WETO) and the Danish Innovation Fund hold a bilateral meeting to advance floating offshore wind energy systems toward cost-effective commercialization and large-scale deployment. announced its intention to award a US$4.2 million opportunity. . The announcement builds on a memorandum of understanding signed in 2021 between the DOE, the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science, the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities, and the Danish Innovation Fund.
Floating offshore wind energy will make a significant contribution to national and global offshore wind deployment goals and the delivery of clean energy to coastal cities.This also supports the goal of floating offshore wind energy shotsTMThis will reduce the cost of floating offshore wind energy, harness the untapped renewable energy potential offshore, facilitate an equitable clean energy transition, and enable widespread adoption that can create jobs and jobs. This is an initiative by the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, and Department of Commerce. economic opportunity.
This proposed funding opportunity supports these goals by focusing research to improve mooring techniques and methods used to secure floating platforms to the seabed. This is a joint U.S.-Danish funding opportunity to advance the global floating offshore wind industry by fostering bilateral cooperation to increase the impact of research and development in each country.
“About two-thirds of the United States’ offshore wind energy potential exists in waters too deep for today’s fixed-bottom wind turbine foundations and requires floating platforms instead. DOE and Danish Innovation This partnership with the Foundation will advance floating offshore wind research and development to advance each country’s respective climate goals. This initiative will reduce the cost of floating offshore wind in the United States by 2035. “Floating Offshore Wind Shots” aims to reduce wind emissions by 70% in 2020,” said Geri Richmond, Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Science and Innovation.
“Climate change cannot be solved by one great idea, one company, or one country alone. It will require many new initiatives and collaborations from different sectors working in the same direction.” Innovation Anders Eldrup, Chairman of the Fund Denmark, added: “Floating offshore wind technology has great potential to contribute to the green transition. Innovation Fund Denmark is committed to investing in ambitious and lasting green research and innovation, and is committed to investing in ambitious and lasting green research and innovation. We are excited about the opportunity to work together to find new solutions for the innovation environment.”
WETO and the Danish Innovation Fund are each contributing approximately US$2 million. The implementation team must include both U.S. and Danish organizations collaborating on each awarded project and must include significant effort from both U.S. and Danish partners. U.S. applicants must include institutions that serve ethnic minorities and may include other U.S. participants. Four or more awards are expected.
DOE and the Danish Innovation Fund will seek proposals addressing five thematic areas.
- Compatibility strategies for moorings, cables, and coexistence: Develop ways to reduce the impact of cables and mooring lines on other marine users and the environment, and promote opportunities for positive impact.
- Manufacturable and reliable mooring equipment: Enables the mass production of mooring components at the scale required to supply floating offshore wind arrays with an installed capacity of at least 500 MW.
- New Station Maintenance Systems and Components: Research and development, demonstration, or commercialization of technologies to prevent failure, reduce cost, improve performance, or increase capacity of floating offshore wind energy mooring systems.
- Mooring Equipment Monitoring and Inspection Technologies: Developing sensor systems, remote inspection methods, maintenance strategies, and data collection and processing approaches that can better assess the health and reliability of subsea components of commercial-scale floating offshore wind energy arrays. Masu.
- Publication Topic: Research and development to support broader mooring systems for industry-scale deployment of floating offshore wind energy. This includes, but is not limited to, identifying best practices for the overall design and optimization of floating wind energy systems, and how to co-optimize turbines, platforms, moorings, and control systems. not.
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