Conservation Research and Development — CFDA 81.086

Conservation R&D obligations at $2.24 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,243,425,037.07 in obligations under CFDA 81.086. Eight hundred sixty-nine awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $2.58 million per award — larger than a typical investigator grant and consistent with multi-year energy-conservation R&D awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical retrofit cost or a per-kWh figure.

The assistance-listing title is CONSERVATION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. CFDA 81.086 is the identifier. Renewable, fossil, and grid listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.24 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined energy-R&D total this packet does not contain.

509 recipients across 51 states

Five hundred nine recipients share 869 awards, or about 1.7 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.24 billion evenly would assign about $4.41 million per recipient. That pattern is closer to one or two awards per organization than to a dense science portfolio. The packet does not list the 509. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of buildings, appliances, or researchers.

Fifty-one states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. Conservation R&D dollars still concentrate where labs, universities, and industrial partners sit. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a retrofit or kWh count

Among energy listings, 81.086 is a mid-volume file: 869 rows against 509 recipients. Multi-year R&D awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique projects. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of conservation projects.” Recipients (509) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (869) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report energy saved, square footage retrofitted, or publication counts. Citing 869 as buildings or kilowatt-hours would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus conservation outlays

The $2.24 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against conservation R&D awards — are not in the packet. A laboratory can show a large obligation stock while work follows a multi-year calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 81.086 to size this Conservation Research and Development listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an energy-savings dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 81.086.

What the 81.086 tables omit

The Conservation Research and Development hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a building registry, not a savings ledger, and not a patent index. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,243,425,037.07. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 869 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 51 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on equipment or staff.

Where the 81.086 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 81.086 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other energy listings. For 81.086 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 81.086’s 869 awards spread $2,243,425,037.07 across 509 recipients and 51 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.7 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 81.086 as a conservation R&D book: 509 organizations, 869 awards, 51 states, and about 1.7 rows per recipient — a nationwide energy-conservation listing rather than a short industrial roster. The $2.24 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov.

Questions

How much is obligated for conservation research and development?

USAspending.gov records $2,243,425,037.07 in obligations for CFDA 81.086. SpendingVault indexes 869 awards, 509 recipients, and 51 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a kilowatt-hour count. CFDA 81.086’s $2.24 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 81.086 carry?

The listing shows 869 awards against 509 recipients, or about 1.7 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $2.58 million per award. Award count is not a retrofit or savings count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 81.086 awards?

The extract lists 509 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 81.086. Geographic coding covers 51 states. The packet does not name the 509 or publish energy-savings data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount.

Is $2.24 billion already spent on conservation R&D?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 81.086’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or energy saved. The $2.24 billion on 869 awards is the obligation figure.