This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on behalf of the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO). This funding opportunity is coordinated with Innovation Fund Denmark to support U.S.- Danish consortia collaborating on shared research objectives. EERE funds will be used to support the U.S. entity work through this FOA. Innovation Fund Denmark funds will be used to support Danish entity work through Innovation Fund Denmark’s corresponding funding opportunity. The goals of this FOA are to: 

• Advance floating offshore wind energy mooring technologies and methods towards cost-effective commercialization and industry growth;
• Encourage bilateral collaboration to increase the impact of research in the United States and Denmark; and
• Support research at U.S. minority-serving colleges and universities (MSI) and facilitate new relationships between MSIs, other researchers, and industry participants.

The research and development (R&D) activities to be funded under this FOA will support the government-wide approach to addressing climate change by driving innovation that can lead to the deployment of clean energy technologies, which are critical for climate protection. Specifically, this FOA will reduce risk, lower cost, enable the domestic supply chain, and improve coexistence of floating offshore wind energy arrays with other ocean users and the environment. It will do this through R&D of innovative mooring system technologies and methods.

Application Deadline: January 14, 2025

Announcement: https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/#FoaId38983fd5-82ef-4131-a484-60da83cefaf5