Cost Of Energy reduction for offshore Tension Leg Platform (TLP) wind turbine systems through advanced control strategies for energy yield improvement, load mitigation and stabilization Award Number: DE-EE00005494 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.1, B5.15 Ge...
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Cost of Energy Reduction for Offshore Tension Leg Platform (TLP) Wind Turbine Systems through Advanced Control Strategies for Energy Yield Improvement, Load Mitigation and Stabilization
Award Number: DE-EE0005494
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.1, B5.15
Wind Program
Date: 07/31/2014
Location(s): VA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Alstom Power Incorporated (Alstom) to design and test new control strategies for utility scale wind turbines that would reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) through increased energy yield, particularly in an offshore environment. No new turbines will be constructed for the execution of this project.
DOE completed a previous NEPA review for activities defined for Budget Period 1 (BP1), originally defined as Tasks 1-11, redefined in the Budget Period 2 (BP2) Statement of Project Objectives (SOPO) as Tasks 1-17 (GFO-0005494-00, CX A9 01/19/2012). A crosswalk comparison of the BP1 SOPO and the BP2 SOPO shows that the redefined tasks (from 1-11 to 1-17) remained within the bounds of the original NEPA determination. BP1 tasks were limited to information gathering and analysis. This NEPA determination applies to BP2 only.