Collegiate Wind Competition
Invests teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for Collegiate Wind Competition in energy systems.
The 2026 Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC26) is a Department of Energy student engineering competition organized by the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) in which U.S. university teams design, build, and test scaled wind turbines and present wind farm project development proposals. The competition is structured around three regional qualifying events — Pacific, Central, and Eastern — followed…
Small wind turbine design, build, and test; wind farm project development proposals. University student teams only.
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