Federal obligations in other electric power generation (NAICS 221118)

Residual generation dollars: $938.2 million obligated

Census splits electric power generation by technology. 221118 holds generation establishments that do not fit the more specific six-digit generation codes. Federal tagged contracts in that residual sum to $938,175,283.22. The total is the tagged commitment; it is not megawatt-hours produced. Physical generation is not in the packet facts.

Natural gas distribution (221210) and sewage treatment facilities (221320) appear earlier in this slice as other 22 utilities. They are not generation. Do not add 221118 to distribution or treatment codes and call the sum “federal electricity.” $938,175,283.22 is other electric power generation as tagged on 645 awards.

645 awards and a capital-scale average

Six hundred forty-five awards against $938,175,283.22 averages about $1.45 million per action. Generation-related contracts are often larger than catalog supply orders and more numerous than three-award finance codes. The average is the ratio of the two packet facts. The industry hub shows whether a few power-purchase or generation-support vehicles dominate the $938,175,283.22.

This guide does not name plants, fuels, or agencies. Residual codes are a poor place to infer a technology story. Award descriptions on the hub are the only product-level view this overlay will point to.

Generation versus distribution versus “other”

Power generation creates electricity. Distribution delivers it. 221118 is generation, residual technology. A utility that both generates and distributes may be tagged to its primary industry on a given award. The $938,175,283.22 follows the 221118 tag as recorded, not a reconstructed generation fleet.

Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. Loan guarantees and energy-deployment grants typically miss this contract rollup. Program pages cover those streams.

A complete citation of this industry is $938,175,283.22 in USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 221118, other electric power generation, on 645 awards. Anything less—dropping the NAICS, dropping the word obligations, or dropping the contract-only universe—overstates what the extract contains. The packet facts do not include a fiscal year, so this guide does not invent one. Live tables on the industry hub can move when USAspending posts modifications; the harvested pair remains $938,175,283.22 and 645.

Obligations on power-related vehicles

Power contracts can obligate a long performance period or a large ceiling while invoices follow delivered energy or completed work. The $938,175,283.22 is committed value on 645 tagged actions, not cash already paid for every kilowatt-hour. Outlays and de-obligations can diverge from that commitment.

Classification errors are expected at the margin. Vendors that straddle gas distribution, transformer manufacturing, and named-fuel generation codes may land in 221118 on some actions and in a neighbor on others. Natural gas distribution (221210) delivers fuel through mains; 221118 is generation, residual technology. The public-record stance is to keep $938,175,283.22 attached to 221118 as tagged, then read descriptions on the 645 rows instead of inferring a fuel mix from the residual title. Re-tagging the extract by hand is out of scope for this overlay.

How to continue

Open the other electric power generation industry page for the 645 awards behind $938,175,283.22. Use the all-industries directory for gas distribution and other utility codes without merging their dollars into this residual. Source: USAspending.gov contract awards. No fiscal year is in the packet.

Generation residuals do not name a fuel

Award count interprets the buying pattern. 645 actions producing $938,175,283.22 is hundreds of generation-related contracts in a technology residual, with about $1.45 million per action as the simple average. That average hides mix: modifications, options, and delivery orders all increment count. 645 is not a count of unique companies and not a count of physical units. Use the hub amount sort to see whether a few large rows plus a long tail make up most of the tagged total.

Outlays remain a separate USAspending concept. An agency can obligate $938,175,283.22 across 645 tagged other electric power generation actions and pay on a different calendar. De-obligations after cancellations reduce the obligation ledger; they do not rewrite the fact that this NAICS has been a large tagged category in the harvest. Assistance without NAICS still sits outside even when the real-world activity looks similar. Program pages answer the grant question; this page answers the tagged-contract question.

Internal links on this file point only to the other electric power generation industry page and the all-industries directory. Those are the packet hrefs. Neighboring industry codes mentioned in prose are classification context only. Source note, copied from the packet: NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS. The overlay’s job is to state $938,175,283.22, 645, the obligation unit, and the boundary around gas distribution, transformer manufacturing, and named-fuel generation codes.

Questions

How much federal contracting is coded to other electric power generation?

NAICS 221118 shows $938,175,283.22 in obligations on 645 USAspending contract awards. It is a residual generation code, not distribution and not a specific fuel. The unit is obligations, not outlays or megawatt-hours. Quote it as USAspending contract obligations tagged to NAICS 221118, not as cash outlays. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so grants remain outside the 645-award extract behind $938,175,283.22.

Does 221118 include solar or wind farms?

Those technologies have more specific generation NAICS when used. 221118 is the residual for generation not classified there. This page’s $938,175,283.22 follows the 221118 tag on 645 actions. Award descriptions on the hub show what each row is. Natural gas distribution (221210) delivers fuel through mains; 221118 is generation, residual technology. Keep $938,175,283.22 attached to 221118 as tagged on 645 actions; do not merge neighbor codes into the same unlabeled cell.

Is natural gas distribution part of this total?

No. Natural gas distribution is NAICS 221210. This page’s $938,175,283.22 is other electric power generation only. Open the gas-distribution industry page separately. That pattern is hundreds of generation-related contracts in a technology residual, with about $1.45 million per action as the simple average of $938,175,283.22 over 645 awards. Read descriptions on the 645 rows instead of inferring a fuel mix from the residual title.

Are energy grants included in the $938 million?

Usually not. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS, so they fall outside this 645-award contract extract. Use program pages for grants. This industry guide covers tagged contracts only: $938,175,283.22 obligated on 645 other electric power generation awards in USAspending. Outlays are a different field; assistance without NAICS is a different award type.