WETO Wind R&D FOA Program
Funds wind technology development for land-based, offshore, and distributed systems in the United States.
WETO Wind R&D FOA Program sits under the DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office and covers land-based wind, offshore wind, distributed wind, manufacturing and supply chain, wind resource characterization, environmental impacts and siting, and grid integration. It is the office’s competitive grant route for US wind technology R&D, with a portfolio shaped around turbines, siting, system integration, and supply-chain work rather than a single-theme demonstration program. The record lists annual cooperative agreements with awards from $500,000 to $30M and a 20% match requirement. Eligible applicants include for-profit firms, nonprofits, universities, and research organizations, while individuals are excluded. The geography is US-only, and the public materials frame the work as multi-domain research rather than a narrow grant line. The program is currently paused because the FY26 budget request assigned WETO no new discretionary funding, so new FOAs are not expected under the present budget posture. That makes the strongest use case historical and strategic: applicants should track the specific FOA language when appropriations return, because the office’s research themes and match terms can shift by solicitation.
No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Annual.