U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program

Budget

In fiscal year 2009, the Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program budget for wind power activities was $54.37 million, and the budget for water power activities was $39.08 million. The following charts show the budget breakdown for the program research areas in FY 2009 and the history of program funding. The figures reflect appropriations minus Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer, which are administered outside of the program.

Budget Breakdowns

These charts illustrate the Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program's budget breakdown for fiscal year 2009.

Pie charts of the fiscal year 2009 budgets for the Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program. All figures are in millions. The budget for wind power activities is $54.37, with $4.52 in low wind speed technology (8%), $3.5 in distributed wind technology (6%), $23.35 for supporting research and testing (43%), $16 for systems integration (30%), and $7 for technology acceptance (13%). The water power activities budget is $39.08, with $17.28 in marine and hydrokinetic technology development (44%), $12.19 in marine and hydrokinetic market acceleration (31%), $6.74 in conventional hydropower technology development and deployment (17%), and $2.88 in conventional hydropower market acceleration (7%).

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Budget History

These charts illustrate the budgets for wind and water power activities in previous fiscal years.

Graph illustrating the wind power budget history from 1975 to 2008. It starts in 1975 with approximately $58 million in funding, then plunges to $15 million in 1976. It slowly climbs over the next few years until it reaches $60 million in 1980 and $61 million in 1981. It then steadily declines to $54 million in 1981, hovers just short of $30 million between 1982 and 1986, and finally reaches its lowest point at $9 million from 1988, where it remains until it begins to increase in 1991. It climbs to $49 million in 1995, then averages approximately $32 million until 2001, where it hovers around $40 million until 2007. The budget is $49 million in 2007, $48.7 million in 2008, and $54.37 in 2009.
Graph illustrating the water power budget history from 2007 to 2009. It is $0 in fiscal year 2007, just under $10 million in 2008, and $39.08 million in 2009.

The budget history for water power activities begins in 2008 because the Wind and Hydropower Technologies Program's hydropower activities were closed out after 2006. Funding resumed in 2008, at which time the program restructured its water power activities to include both conventional hydropower and marine and hydrokinetic technologies. The U.S. Department of Energy has previously received funding to develop cost-competitive technologies and reduce environmental impacts of conventional hydropower beginning in 1977.