Installation Noise Reduction and Reliable Moorings for Offshore Wind and Marine Energy

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on behalf of the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), the Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), as well as the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The goals of this FOA are to: • Improve the reliability of moorings for floating offshore wind energy and marine energy converters; and • Reduce noise associated with installing fixed-bottom offshore wind energy foundations. To view the entire FOA document, visit the EERE Exchange Website at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov