WIND ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES OFFICE
WETO Releases $28 Million Funding Opportunity to Address Key Wind Energy Deployment Challenges

Today (Dec 6), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) released a $28 million funding opportunity to lower costs and address barriers to deployment of wind energy in all its applications offshore, land-based, and distributed. These efforts are funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. 

This multi-topic funding opportunity includes: 

• $9.7 million to advance technologies needed to transmit large amounts of electricity from offshore wind over long distances. 
• $3.3 million to improve permitting processes to make distributed wind more accessible to communities where distributed wind can be cost-effectively and equitably deployed. 
• $6.9 million to support social science research and community engagement that helps communities benefit from offshore wind development. 
• $8 million to improve technologies that help bats avoid wind turbines as the industry works to minimize impacts to local wildlife and ecosystems. 

Applicants must submit a concept paper by 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 20, 2023, to be eligible to submit a full application. Find more, including eligibility requirements, on the Funding Opportunities Announcement webpage.