NSF Engines Development Award: Accelerating A Just Energy Transition Through Innovative Nature-Inclusive Offshore Wind Farms (CT,DE,MA,MD,NJ,RI,VA)

NSF 发动机开发奖：通过创新的自然包容性海上风电场加速公正的能源转型（康涅狄格州、特拉华州、马里兰州、马里兰州、新泽西州、罗德岛州、弗吉尼亚州）

• 批准号: 2315558
• 负责人: Daniel Kuchma
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315558&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Accelerating

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on advancing the science, engineering, economic models, industrial capacity, decision-making process, and regulations needed for the design and operation of nature-inclusive Offshore Wind (OW) underwater infrastructure (e.g. foundations and associated scour protection). Over the next ten years, about 2000 OW turbines are expected to be constructed off our nation’s eastern coastline from Massachusetts to Virginia at a cost of about $100 Billion. This brings great challenges and opportunities for the shared-use of our coastal waters. The marine ecosystem in this region is already under great stress due to climate change which has reduced biodiversity and fishing stocks; thereby, communities in this region are very concerned about additional stresses on the marine ecosystem that offshore wind may bring. MOCEAN (Mission is the OCEAN) is the lead for this NSF project, and it aims to: (i) make OW farm development a win for all (OW industry, fishers, coastal communities, ocean habitats); (ii) drive large-scale sustainable OW energy that will contribute greatly to achieving U.S. climate goals and ocean health; and (iii) catalyze the investment required to build and operate OW farms to address societal inequities. This project will engage industry, stakeholders, public officials, affected communities, and public and private decision makers to develop an effective strategic plan and innovation community to achieve MOCEAN’s mission. MOCEAN’s strategic plan and innovation community will be developed to support making significant advancements in science and technology; engineering, economic, and educational models; and associated policy drivers; the region of this community will include coastline areas from Massachusetts to Virginia. If the project succeeds in becoming an NSF Engine, then the advancements in science will range from the micro-to-macro scale, and these will include the formation of marine communities, marine biology, impact of stressors on habitats, the effect of different materials and coatings on marine growths, local ecosystems, as well as regional ecosystems. The advancements in technologies will include new sensing systems (e.g. eDNA, acoustic, image-based), robotics, coating systems, more durable materials, intelligent nature-inclusive scour protection, artificial reefs, and future-proof foundations. The advancements in engineering models will account for important factors that are presently ignored or insufficiently considered in practice (e.g. soil-foundation structure interaction, impact of cathodic protection on design life and the environment). For economics, the advancements will quantify the effect of local labor, environmental impact, and new blue technology within economic models that can be used in the decision-making process for the design and operation of offshore wind farms. In education, advancements will create new methods of engagement, support, and learning that lead to much greater participation of students and workers from marginalized communities in the New Blue Economy within MOCEAN’s region of service. The composition of the MOCEAN team was designed to make intellectual progress at the intersections between different fields, and to create system-of-system models. This Development Award will enable the team to engage in a regional, collaborative planning process to prepare a future Engine to meet these goals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是推进自然包容性海上风电 (OW) 水下基础设施（例如地基和相关设施）的设计和运营所需的科学、工程、经济模型、工业能力、决策过程和法规。未来十年，预计将在我国东部海岸线从马萨诸塞州到弗吉尼亚州建造约 2000 台 OW 涡轮机，耗资约 1000 亿美元，这给电力行业带来了巨大的挑战和机遇。由于气候变化减少了生物多样性和渔业资源，该地区的海洋生态系统已经面临巨大压力，因此，该地区的社区非常担心海上风电对海洋生态系统造成的额外压力； MOCEAN（使命是海洋）是该 NSF 项目的领导者，其目标是： (i) 使 OW 农场的开发成为所有人（OW 工业、渔民、沿海社区、海洋栖息地）的双赢；推动大规模可持续OW能源这将大大有助于实现美国的气候目标和海洋健康；(iii) 促进建设和运营 OW 农场所需的投资，以解决社会不平等问题。该项目将吸引行业、利益相关者、政府官员、受影响的社区以及公共和私营部门。决策者制定有效的战略计划和创新社区，以实现 MOCEAN 的使命；该社区的范围将包括从马萨诸塞州到弗吉尼亚州的海岸线地区，如果该项目成功成为 NSF 引擎，那么科学的进步将涵盖从微观到宏观的范围，其中将包括海洋群落的形成、海洋生物学。 、压力源对栖息地的影响、不同材料和涂层对海洋生长、当地生态系统以及区域生态系统的影响。技术的进步将包括新的传感系统（例如 eDNA、声学、基于图像的）、机器人技术、涂层。系统、更耐用的材料、智能自然冲刷保护、人工鱼礁和面向未来的基础工程模型的进步将解释目前在实践中被忽视或未充分考虑的重要因素（例如土壤与基础结构的相互作用、影响）。阴极保护对设计寿命和环境的影响）在经济学方面，这些进步将量化经济模型中当地劳动力、环境影响和新蓝色技术的影响，这些模型可用于设计和运营的决策过程。海上风电在教育方面，进步将创造新的参与、支持和学习方法，从而使 MOCEAN 服务区域内边缘化社区的学生和工人更多地参与新蓝色经济。在不同领域的交叉点上取得智力进步，并创建系统模型，该开发奖将使团队能够参与区域协作规划过程，以准备未来的引擎来实现这些目标。该奖项反映了 NSF 的成就。法定使命并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。