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 Environmental Stewardship for Renewable Energy
Technologies: Marine and Hydrokinetic (MHK) Environmental and Resource
Characterization Instrumentation.
This FOA will
support the development of instrumentation, associated processing tools, and
integration of instrumentation packages for monitoring the environmental
impacts of marine and hydrokinetic technologies. It will also support the
development and testing of sensors, instrumentation, or processing techniques
to collect physical data on ocean waves (e.g., height, period, directionality,
steepness) and characterize the available resources.
It is anticipated
that the FOA may include the following Topic Areas:
Topic Area 1
– MHK Environmental Instrumentation Development
Topic Area 2
- Development and Integration of Instrumentation Packages
Topic Area 3 - Wave Resource Characterization
This Notice is issued so that interested parties are aware of the EERE’s intention to issue this FOA in the near term. All of the information contained in this Notice is subject to change. EERE will not respond to questions concerning this Notice. Once the FOA has been released, EERE will provide an avenue for potential Applicants to submit questions.