Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0002960
The Large Wind Turbine Materials and Manufacturing funding opportunity (DE-FOA-0002960) is a U.S. Department of Energy solicitation focused on improving how large wind turbine components are made, with an emphasis on advanced composites and additive manufacturing. It is issued by DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on behalf of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), and it is aimed at overcoming practical manufacturing barriers that slow down deployment, raise costs, or limit performance of next-generation wind systems. While wind energy is the central application area, the work is framed as broadly useful to clean energy and decarbonization manufacturing needs where composite materials play an important role.
The FOA's technical goals center on four related themes. First, it seeks development of foundational manufacturing "platform" technologies that can be applied across composite manufacturing workflows, especially where there are known gaps that prevent wider use of composites in energy applications. Second, it prioritizes enabling additive manufacturing approaches that speed up rapid prototyping, tooling, fabrication, and testing of large wind turbine blades, which are difficult to iterate on due to their size, cost, and long development cycles. Third, it encourages applying additive manufacturing beyond blades to other wind turbine components, signaling interest in broader component innovation rather than treating blades as the only high-value target. Fourth, it supports maturing early-stage processes and methods that improve advanced composites manufacturing in one or more dimensions, including greater automation and improved sustainability, such as recycling and end-of-life solutions for composite materials.
From a program and award structure standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity with awards made as cooperative agreements, meaning DOE expects active involvement in the project beyond a standard grant relationship. The activity category is Energy, and the assistance listing is CFDA 81.086. The award ceiling is listed as $3,000,000 per award, and DOE anticipated making about 30 awards under this announcement. The opportunity was created on February 10, 2023, with an original closing date of May 9, 2023. The issuing agency is the Department of Energy, Golden Field Office.
Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to many types of applicants, subject to any additional eligibility details that may be spelled out in the full announcement. In practice, that typically means private companies, universities, national labs, nonprofits, and other organizations may be able to apply, including teams and partnerships, as long as they comply with any FOA-specific requirements in the complete posting.
Applications are submitted through the EERE eXCHANGE system (https://eere-exchange.energy.gov). The announcement includes explicit instructions for handling submission issues. If technical problems occur before the deadline, applicants are directed to contact the eXCHANGE helpdesk at exchangehelp@hq.doe.gov (and/or the system administrators at eXCHANGE@ee.doe.gov) for assistance. If technical difficulties lead to a late submission, DOE notes it will only accept the late application when the problem was beyond the applicant's control, the applicant contacted the helpdesk for help, and the application is submitted through eXCHANGE within 24 hours after the posted deadline. The full funding announcement and any topic areas, required concept papers, cost share expectations, and detailed evaluation criteria are provided in the complete FOA on the eXCHANGE site.Apply for DE FOA 0002960
- The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Large Wind Turbine Materials and Manufacturing" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.086.
- This funding opportunity was created on Feb 10, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 09, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $3,000,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 30 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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