Clean Energy Demonstrations — CFDA 81.255

Seventy-seven awards hold $3.60 billion

USAspending.gov records $3,602,789,543.84 in obligations under CFDA 81.255. Seventy-seven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $46.8 million per award — far larger than a typical research grant and consistent with demonstration-scale energy projects. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical plant construction cost.

The assistance-listing title is CLEAN ENERGY DEMONSTRATIONS. CFDA 81.255 is the identifier. Other energy listings tagged under other CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $3.60 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined clean-energy total this packet does not contain.

72 recipients in 28 states

Seventy-two recipients share 77 awards, or about 1.1 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $3.60 billion evenly would assign about $50.0 million per recipient. That near one-to-one pattern matches a demonstration file in which most named organizations hold a single large row. The packet does not list the 72. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of facilities or megawatts.

Twenty-eight states in the geographic count is a concentrated coding. Demonstration dollars sit where named projects are coded, not in every jurisdiction. The state count does not flatten those differences. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a plant count

Among energy listings, 81.255 is a sparse, high-dollar file: 77 rows against 72 recipients. Multi-year demonstrations can sit as a few large records even while construction spans many sites. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of clean-energy plants.” Recipients (72) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (77) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report megawatts, operating status, or emissions avoided. Citing 77 as plants would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus demonstration outlays

The $3.60 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against clean-energy demonstration awards — are not in the packet. A recipient can show a large obligation stock while construction 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 81.255 to size the Clean Energy Demonstrations listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a plant-status dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 81.255.

What the 81.255 tables omit

The Clean Energy Demonstrations hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a plant registry, not an emissions ledger, and not a ranking of technologies. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $3,602,789,543.84. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 77 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 28 states is a coding field. A project coded to one cell can dominate geography while work sits in several counties. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares.

Where the 81.255 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 81.255 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other energy listings. For 81.255 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 81.255’s 77 awards spread $3,602,789,543.84 across 72 recipients and 28 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.1 award records per recipient and about $46.8 million per award are the structure story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

CFDA 81.255 is indexed at $3,602,789,543.84 in obligations, 77 awards, 72 recipients, and 28 states on USAspending.gov. Clean Energy Demonstrations should be cited on that CFDA row alone. The $3.60 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 81.255, 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 $3,602,789,543.84 obligation stock. Keep the four facts together when quoting Clean Energy Demonstrations: 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 clean energy demonstrations?

USAspending.gov records $3,602,789,543.84 in obligations for CFDA 81.255. SpendingVault indexes 77 awards, 72 recipients, and 28 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a plant count. CFDA 81.255’s $3.60 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

Why does CFDA 81.255 have so few awards?

The listing shows 77 awards against 72 recipients, or about 1.1 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $46.8 million per award. That file shape is consistent with demonstration-scale projects rather than thousands of small grants. Award count is not a plant count.

How many organizations receive 81.255 awards?

The extract lists 72 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 81.255. Geographic coding covers 28 states. The packet does not name the 72 or publish plant status. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. CFDA 81.255’s $3.60 billion on 77 awards, with 72 recipients and 28 states in this aggregate, is the USAspending obligation stock.

Is $3.60 billion already spent on demonstrations?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 81.255’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or operating plants. The $3.60 billion on 77 awards is the obligation figure.