This anticipated FOA is to support
a university consortium to leverage existing in-situ Research and Development (R&D)
expertise to advance U.S. Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) technology, while developing intellectual capital
for a globally-competitive workforce.
The individual consortium-defined R&D activities pursued in the
overall university consortium project will address strategic opportunities in DOE’s
MHK technology development portfolio.
In applying, an eligible
university consortium must demonstrate capabilities and expertise in R&D to
fill strategic opportunities within the Water Power Program’s portfolio including:
• Logistics
development for operations and maintenance (O&M) of devices and arrays in
energetic marine environments.
• Development
and validation of efficient high-fidelity resource characterization and/or
modeling techniques.
• Development
and techno-economic studies of devices for distributed applications.
• Component
technology development necessary for enabling arrays: e.g. moorings and
foundations, transmission, and other offshore grid components.
• Array
performance testing and evaluation.
• In-water
testing and evaluation of new, cost-effective environmental monitoring
techniques and instrumentation in energetic marine environments.
This Notice is issued so that
interested parties are aware of DOE's intention to issue this FOA in the
near term. All of the information contained in this Notice is subject to
change. DOE will not respond to questions concerning this Notice. Once the FOA
has been released, DOE will provide an avenue for potential Applicants to
submit questions.