Renewable Energy Research and Development — CFDA 81.087

Renewable-energy R&D obligations at $3.53 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,530,967,729.01 in obligations under CFDA 81.087. One thousand fifty-four awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3.35 million per award — larger than a typical investigator grant and consistent with multi-year energy R&D awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical project budget or a per-megawatt cost.

The assistance-listing title is RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. CFDA 81.087 is the identifier. Demonstration and grid listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $3.53 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined clean-energy total this packet does not contain.

544 recipients across 51 states

Five hundred forty-four recipients share 1,054 awards, or about 1.9 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $3.53 billion evenly would assign about $6.5 million per recipient. That pattern is closer to one or two awards per organization than to a dense research portfolio of six-plus rows each. The packet does not list the 544. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of turbines, panels, or researchers.

Fifty-one states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. R&D dollars still concentrate where labs, universities, and industrial partners sit. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a megawatt count

Among energy listings, 81.087 is a mid-volume file: 1,054 rows against 544 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 renewable-energy projects.” Recipients (544) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (1,054) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report installed capacity, generation, or publication counts. Citing 1,054 as plants or megawatts would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus energy outlays

The $3.53 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against renewable-energy 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 81.087 to size this renewable-energy R&D listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as an installation dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 81.087.

What the 81.087 tables omit

The Renewable Energy Research and Development hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a plant registry, not a generation ledger, and not a patent index. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,530,967,729.01. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 1,054 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 81.087 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 81.087 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other energy listings. For 81.087 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 81.087’s 1,054 awards spread $3,530,967,729.01 across 544 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 1.9 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 81.087 is indexed at $3,530,967,729.01 in obligations, 1,054 awards, 544 recipients, and 51 states on USAspending.gov. Renewable Energy Research and Development should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.53 billion figure sizes the listing in the assistance file. It does not convert obligations into outlays, and it does not convert award count into a service, patient, student, or project census.

Readers who need the overlay tables should start on the program page for CFDA 81.087, then rank the listing on the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings; they do not replace the $3,530,967,729.01 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Renewable Energy Research and Development: dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov, award count as a stored-row count, recipient count as the organizational headcount (including 0 when the extract stores none), and the state figure as a geographic coding count.

Questions

How much is obligated for renewable energy research and development?

USAspending.gov records $3,530,967,729.01 in obligations for CFDA 81.087. SpendingVault indexes 1,054 awards, 544 recipients, and 51 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a megawatt count. CFDA 81.087’s $3.53 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 81.087 carry?

The listing shows 1,054 awards against 544 recipients, or about 1.9 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $3.35 million per award. Award count is not a plant or capacity count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 81.087 awards?

The extract lists 544 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 81.087. Geographic coding covers 51 states. The packet does not name the 544 or publish generation data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 81.087’s $3.53 billion on 1,054 awards, with 544 recipients and 51 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.53 billion already spent on renewable-energy R&D?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 81.087’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or installed capacity. The $3.53 billion on 1,054 awards is the obligation figure.