The consortium is led by defense contractor SAIC and includes the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Sandia National Laboratories, wind developer Force 5, other companies and Glosten Associates, designer of the PelaStar floating platform.
It is on DOE’s short list of applicants, according to Charles Nordstrom, a senior naval architect at Glosten and lead engineer for Pelastar.
DOE in March unveiled a six-year, $180m research initiative to support deployment of breakthrough offshore wind technologies that have potential for lowering the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) below 10 cents/kWh.
