RD&D

American  

1. research, development, and demonstration.

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Example Sentences

We can do that through moonshot-style innovation projects: RD+D, policy and public procurement to drive deployment and scale up manufacturing, financing and other measures to bring every needed technology to the “nth of a kind” cost that can outcompete fossil fuels globally.

From Scientific American

“Spending on solar RD&D has been low relative to spending on other energy technologies with less long-term potential, it has been variable over time, and it has been too focused on short-term gains rather than long-term reductions in the cost of solar electricity,” the M.I.T. report noted, referring to research, development and demonstration.

From New York Times

So their report proposes asking governments to spend 0.02% of their GDP on internationally co-operative RD&D in renewables; energy storage and smart transmission.

From BBC

It complains that renewable energy has been starved of investment to a shocking degree, with publicly-funded RD&D on renewable energy only $6 billion a year – under 2% of the total of publicly funded research and development.

From BBC

RD&D, the  research, development, and demonstration on energy is a few billion dollars a year, constant dollars.

From Forbes