(FOA)-FY19
Wind Energy Technologies Office Funding Opportunity Announcement
(DE-FOA-0002071); April 29, 2019
Agency
Department
of Energy –Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
(EERE)
Description
The
Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) invests in early-stage applied
energy science research, development, and validation activities for United
States land-based, offshore and distributed wind power generation,
manufacturing, and market barriers to lower wind energy costs, increase
capacity, accelerate reliable and safe energy production, and address
environmental and human use considerations. This FOA consists of four
Areas of Interest, but only the first topic area is applicable to general wind
energy technologies research and development.
1)
Wind
Innovations for Rural Economic Development (WIRED)
·
Subtopic
1a: Fully integrated distributed wind research and development (R&D)
innovations to enhance resilience and reliability
This
subtopic seeks to increase the reliability, resilience, and security of rural
electricity systems through the development of distributed wind solutions that
are fully integrated with other technologies to support utility operations,
such as distributed wind paired with solar, storage, or controllable loads. The
goal of this subtopic is to develop distributed wind-focused technology
solutions that support rural electric utility operations, enhance end user
benefits and show a viable business case and broad applicability to the rural
electric utility market.
·
Subtopic
1b: Balance of system cost reduction through
standardization
The goal
of this subtopic is to reduce the technical risk and market barriers impacting
the time and cost of stand-alone and fully integrated distributed
wind
deployment for
rural electric utilities. This subtopic aims to:
§
reduce
balance of system costs associated with the development of stand-alone
distributed wind systems and distributed wind systems fully-integrated with
distributed energy resource (DERs) by rural utilities through standardized
system designs and replicable project development templates
and
§
provide
technical assistance to utilities to mitigate technical market barriers by
developing and following consistent best practices when planning and financing
stand-alone distributed wind systems and distributed wind systems fully
integrated with DERs.
Announcement
Number
DE-FOA-0002071
Closing
Date
Concept
papers: April 29, 2019
Applications:
June 17, 2019
Link
to Full Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=314340
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