Fossil Energy Research and Development — CFDA 81.089

Fossil-energy R&D obligations at $2.94 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,940,189,617.08 in obligations under CFDA 81.089. Five hundred eighty awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $5.07 million per award — larger than a typical investigator grant and consistent with multi-year energy laboratory and industrial R&D awards. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical project budget or a per-well cost.

The assistance-listing title is FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. CFDA 81.089 is the identifier. Renewable, nuclear, and grid listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.94 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined energy-R&D total this packet does not contain.

241 recipients across 40 states

Two hundred forty-one recipients share 580 awards, or about 2.4 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.94 billion evenly would assign about $12.2 million per recipient. That pattern is closer to a small cluster of multi-year awards per organization than to a dense science CFDA with six-plus rows each. The packet does not list the 241. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of wells, plants, or researchers.

Forty states in the geographic count leave a visibly incomplete map. Fossil-energy R&D dollars still concentrate where labs, universities, and industrial partners sit; the missing-state gap only underscores that. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a project or barrel count

Among energy listings, 81.089 is a mid-volume file: 580 rows against 241 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 fossil-energy projects.” Recipients (241) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (580) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report production, capture capacity, or publication counts. Citing 580 as plants or barrels would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus energy outlays

The $2.94 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against fossil-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 81.089 to size this fossil-energy R&D listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a production dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 81.089.

What the 81.089 tables omit

The Fossil Energy Research and Development hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a plant registry, not a production ledger, and not a patent index. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,940,189,617.08. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 580 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 40 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 81.089 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 81.089 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other energy listings. For 81.089 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 81.089’s 580 awards spread $2,940,189,617.08 across 241 recipients and 40 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 2.4 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 81.089 as a concentrated fossil-energy R&D book: fewer states than a nationwide energy formula, fewer recipients than conservation R&D, and a $5.07 million average that belongs to laboratory-scale awards rather than production payments.

Questions

How much is obligated for fossil energy research and development?

USAspending.gov records $2,940,189,617.08 in obligations for CFDA 81.089. SpendingVault indexes 580 awards, 241 recipients, and 40 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a production count. CFDA 81.089’s $2.94 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 81.089 carry?

The listing shows 580 awards against 241 recipients, or about 2.4 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $5.07 million per award. Award count is not a plant or barrel count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 81.089 awards?

The extract lists 241 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 81.089. Geographic coding covers 40 states. The packet does not name the 241 or publish production data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount.

Is $2.94 billion already spent on fossil-energy R&D?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 81.089’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or installed capacity. The $2.94 billion on 580 awards is the obligation figure.