Offshore Wind Science and Research

The Challenge: Advance Offshore Wind Science and Research

Science and research are key tools for advancing offshore wind and enabling the Commonwealth to meet its climate goals. These tools can inform policy and program implementation, grow our offshore wind industry cluster, and unlock opportunities to deploy and operate offshore wind more efficiently, with greater safety, at lower cost, and with lower impacts.

About the Offshore Wind Science and Research Initiative

Through the provision of grants, service agreements or programmatic commitments valued from $50,000 to $1,500,000, MassCEC is advancing science and applied research projects that are highly relevant to planning, deployment, and operations of offshore wind in southern New England and the Gulf of Maine, as well as growing capacity in Massachusetts and the region for such science and applied research.

Status

Open

Award Potential

$50,000 to $1,500,000

Application Deadline

Concept paper: April 5, 2024

Full Application: May 21, 2024 (extended!)

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Funding Schedule

Updated: April 22, 2024
Milestone	Date
Deadline for written questions	April 30, 2024
Responses to questions	Ongoing, but no later than May 7, 2024
Concept papers due	April 5, 2024 by 5 pm ET
MassCEC response to concept papers	Late May
Full applications due	Will be adjusted
Notifications of awards in response to full applications	Summer 2024
Contracting	July-September 2024

Who's Eligible

Applicants may be an individual company, organization, or institution, or may be a team of such entities.

There is no limitation with respect to the geographic location of an Eligible Applicant. The Applicant may be based in Massachusetts, another U.S. state or territory, or internationally.

For full Program details, please refer to the Offshore Wind Science and Research Solicitation.

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Application Process

The Offshore Wind Science and Research initiative adopts a two-stage application process. MassCEC will first accept concept papers and provide feedback to applicants. Applicants will then submit full applications. MassCEC funding commitments will be made on the basis of Full Applications only.