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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just announced the winners of Phase Two of the prize, narrowing the field to five competitors with innovative ideas for streamlining the deployment of floating offshore wind energy. Each winning team was awarded a cash prize of $450,000 and a $100,000 voucher that can be used for technical support at a DOE national laboratory as they continue to refine their designs.
The FLOWIN Prize, which is administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), was designed to inspire solutions to some of the biggest supply chain and execution challenges faced by offshore wind energy in support of the government’s interagency Floating Offshore Wind Shot. Competing teams began with a concept for a floating offshore wind energy substructure; in the last phase, they worked to develop a pathway to produce and assemble the structure.
