OpportunityTitle: DE-FOA-0001310: NEXT GENERATION MARINE ENERGY SYSTEMS - DURABILITY AND SURVIVABILITY
Description: A modification to this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)has been posted on EERE Exchange. The purpose of the modification is to add the Data Management Plan to the Full Application Content Requirements table on page 26. Please go to - https://eere-exchange.energy.gov - to review the revised FOA. Please review important information below about the EERE Exchange website as it relates to this Funding Opportunity Announcment (FOA). Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001310 entitled &#8220;Next Generation Marine Energy Systems - Durability and Survivability&#8221; focuses on the robustness of innovative MHK design systems with high performance potential and attempts to address questions regarding the costs, reliability, and survivability of innovative and novel system designs. This FOA will address these questions early in the development cycle and avoid costly failures and design iterations with prototypes at a larger scale. Projects awarded from the &#8220;Next Generation Marine Energy Systems - Durability and Survivability&quot; FOA will improve system cost characeristics (i.e. Initial capital costs (ICC), Operational Expenditures (OPEX), Availability, and System Life) by reducing the risk and uncertainty that drives conservatism in design and premature failures in operations. Projects awarded under Topic Area 1 will reduce ICC or extend system life by developing system designs and defining the conditions for survival. Projects will establish and validate survival conditions by testing model scale prototypes in a controlled laboratory environment. Under Topic Area 2, more mature systems that are ready for testing as a fully integrated system will reduce ICC, reduce OPEX, or increase availability by developing new approaches to installation, operations, and maintenance. Prototypes will be instrumented and monitored to identify sources as well as progression of failures that drive the cost of operations. The full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is posted on the EERE Exchange website at https://eere-exchange.energy.gov. Applications must be submitted through the EERE Exchange website to be considered for award. The applicant must first register and create an account on the EERE Exchange website. A User Guide for the EERE Exchange website can be found on the website https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/Manuals.aspx. Information on where to submit questions regarding the content of the announcement and where to submit questions regarding submission of applications is found in the full FOA posted on the EERE Exchange website.
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