Assistance listing (financial assistance)

Clean Energy Demonstrations

Assistance Listing 81.255

FY2025 · complete year · data as of 2026-09-01

No FY2026 awards recorded under this program. Showing FY2025, its most recent year with data.

$6.2B
Federal awards
FY2025
21
Recipients
Assistance Listing 81.255
Code

CFDA 81.255 (Clean Energy Demonstrations) accounted for $6.2B in federal grants in FY2025, led by the Department of Energy, across 21 recipients. Computed

Key takeaways

Computed
FY2025 · complete year · data as of 2026-09-01
  • Clean Energy Demonstrations (Assistance Listing 81.255) accounted for $6.2B in federal obligations in FY2025.
  • It ranked #40 among federal assistance programs by obligations in FY2025.
  • The Department of Energy provided 100% of it.

Top recipients

Computed

The five largest recipients on record received 38% of this category's FY2025 obligations, and the ten largest 59%.

Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation$546.4M
National Cement Company of California, Inc.$500M
Century Aluminum CO$500M
Heidelberg Materials US Inc$499.7M
Eastman Chemical Company$337.7M
Exxon Mobil Corporation$331.9M
Vale USA LLC$282.9M
Wieland North America Recycling LLC$270M
Technip Energies USA, Inc.$200M
Brimstone Commercial, LLC$189M

Recipient breakdown available for 64% of obligations shown

Top funding agencies

Computed
Department of Energy$6.2B

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