About this archived opportunity

As with all infrastructure development, clean energy technologies have impacts on species, habitats, ecosystems, and ecosystem services. As the technologies evolve, this creates new knowledge gaps about these impacts and how they can be mitigated efficiently and effectively. In addition to the unintended consequences of energy technologies on the environment, these knowledge gaps can also add to the soft costs of clean energy development by causing delays in permitting or the additional costs of biological surveys and mitigation based on insufficient scientific evidence. While the most obvious source of potential environmental impacts stems from utility-scale energy generation, emerging sources of environmental concern also include interactions with energy efficient and energy generating windows and responses to offshore wind structures and exterior energy efficient artificial lighting in the built environment. Projects must fall within the following groups: · Group 1: Automated mapping of solar energy footprints and modeling land suitability for agrivoltaics; · Group 2: Assessing and minimizing environmental and biological resource impacts of clean energy deployments; · Group 3: Testing bird-friendly windows for decarbonized buildings; and · Group 4: Identifying biologically appropriate exterior lighting.