Icebreaker Foundation Engineering and Assessment Award Number: DE-EE0006714 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
November 14, 2014
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Icebreaker Foundation Engineering and Assessment
Award Number: DE-EE0006714
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6
Wind Program
Date: 11/14/2014
Location(s): OH
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Lake Erie Development Corporation (LEEDCo) to assess, through research, engineering and laboratory testing, the technical and cost effectiveness of the Icebreaker foundation. No full scale construction, installation or field testing will be undertaken for the execution of this project.
LEEDCo will perform six tasks for this project. These include:
Task 1 – Economic Analysis and Resource Assessment Study
Task 2 – Prior Uses of Friction Wheel Study
Task 3 – Completion of Icebreaker Foundation Design
Task 4 – Ice Characterization and Modeling
Task 5 – Friction Wheel Lab Testing
Task 6 – Information Dissemination