The Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue, on behalf of the Wind
and Water Power Technologies Office, a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
entitled “Wind Energy Bat Impact Minimization Technologies and Field Testing
Opportunities.”
To address and minimize the
regulatory and financial risks associated with wind power development in
locations with sensitive bat species, the Department of Energy’s Wind and Water
Power Technologies Office (WWPTO) seeks through this FOA to fund projects that
advance the technical and commercial readiness of bat impact mitigation and
minimization technologies including, but not limited to, bat deterrents and
operational changes that have a high likelihood of reducing bat mortality at a
facility. This FOA will also support the demonstration and evaluation of
near-commercial bat impact mitigation technologies at operational wind
facilities. These technologies, once successfully demonstrated, will provide
regulators and wind facility owner-operators with viable and cost effective
tools to reduce bat mortality at wind facilities and ease the regulatory and
financial uncertainty related to the development and long-term operation of
wind farms in bat habitat.
The full Notice of Intent (NOI) DE-FOA-0001209 is posted in the FOA Documents section of this NOI.
NO APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH
THIS NOTICE. Please do not submit questions or respond to this Notice of
Intent. Prospective applicants to the FOA should begin developing partnerships,
formulating ideas, and gathering data in anticipation of the issuance of this
FOA. EERE plans to issue the FOA in the first Quarter of Fiscal Year 2015 (by December 31, 2014).
The applicant must first register and create an account on the
EERE eXCHANGE website. A User Guide for EERE eXCHANGE can be found on the EERE
website https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx
after logging in to the system.