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Federal grants to Plug Power Inc.

Latham, New York · Businesses · UEI M8FCXLYU9Q69

Plug Power Inc. in Latham, New York received $75.1 million in federal grants from fiscal 2021 to 2025, across 4 awards. Its largest program was Renewable Energy Research and Development, with $75.7 million. It had no new grant money in fiscal 2025.

From USAspending.gov award records, updated October 31, 2026.

By year

Federal grants to Plug Power Inc. by fiscal year
Fiscal yearAwardsAmount
FY 20210-$506,494
FY 20221$1.2 million
FY 20230-$307,609
FY 20243$74.7 million
FY 20250$0

An award funded in several years counts in each of them, so yearly awards add up to more than the five-year total.

Programs that fund Plug Power Inc.

Every program, fiscal 2021 to 2025
ProgramAwardsAmount
Renewable Energy Research and Development 81.0874$75.7 million

Awarding agencies

AgencyAwardsAmount
Department of Energy4$75.1 million

Largest awards

The 4 largest awards by money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025
AwardProgramFirst actionAmount
The goal of this project will be to establish manufacturing processes for pem electrolyzers in rochester, New York capable of producing 5GW of pem electrolyzer stacks per year, while achieving the cost, production and performance targets described in table 1 below and drawing from disadvantaged comm
ASST_NON_DEEE0011303_089 on USAspending
Renewable Energy Research and DevelopmentSeptember 25, 2024$42.7 million
The project will demonstrate a production pathway to meet the projected stack cost of $40/kw for 100,000 heavy duty stacks per year. To meet these objectives, the team will manufacture a high-performance membrane electrode assembly that meets the program goals of 2.5 kw/gpgm power at 1.07 a CM-2 and
ASST_NON_DEEE0011343_089 on USAspending
Renewable Energy Research and DevelopmentSeptember 25, 2024$28.2 million
The overall objective of the proposed project is to design a hydrocarbon (HC) proton exchange membrane (PEM) that can mitigate the high H2 gas crossover issue in electrolyzer (ELX) applications aiming to use thinner membranes to improve the pem elx efficiency and reduce/eliminate fluorine in pem. T
ASST_NON_DEEE0011328_089 on USAspending
Renewable Energy Research and DevelopmentSeptember 23, 2024$3.8 million
Fully unitized fuel cell manufactured by a continuous process this project will demonstrate a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) bipolar plate (BPP) architecture for heavy-duty applications using flat foil metal separators with grooves in the diffusion substrates that is manufactured in
ASST_NON_DEEE0009614_089 on USAspending
Renewable Energy Research and DevelopmentFebruary 10, 2022$1.3 million

Amounts are net obligations: money committed, minus any amounts taken back. They are not payments. See how our data works.

Questions people ask

How much federal grant money does Plug Power Inc. get?

$75.1 million in 4 grant awards from fiscal 2021 to 2025, as obligations reported to USAspending.gov.

Which agency gives Plug Power Inc. the most?

The Department of Energy, with $75.1 million in 4 awards.

What is Plug Power Inc.'s largest federal grant?

$42.7 million under Renewable Energy Research and Development, with its first action in the period on September 25, 2024. That counts only the money obligated in fiscal 2021 to 2025.

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