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NAICS 221122 electric power distribution contract obligations

USAspending.gov records $6.6 billion in federal contract obligations under NAICS 221122, Electric Power Distribution. SpendingVault’s aggregate is $6,636,429,225.14 across 2,707 awards, about $2.5 million per award. The code measures electric power distribution as tagged on contracts, not power-plant construction and not a household utility bill census. Dollars are obligations, not outlays; assistance without NAICS is excluded.

Key figures

  • NAICS 221122 electric power distribution shows $6.6 billion obligated.
  • 2,707 awards average about $2.5 million in the USAspending extract.
  • The code is distribution service, not plant construction or boiler manufacturing.
  • Figures are contract obligations, not outlays or kilowatt-hours.

Distribution service, not generation construction

NAICS 221122 is electric power distribution. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is distributing electric power. Building a generating plant, stringing a new transmission line as construction, or manufacturing boilers uses other codes. Power boiler manufacturing (332410) is a manufacturing hub; this $6,636,429,225.14 is the distribution-utility tag.

Two thousand seven hundred seven awards produced a mean of about $2.5 million. Federal sites buy power, pay distribution charges, and sometimes contract for distribution-system work. The packet does not count kilowatt-hours, meters, or substations. Those operational measures are outside the industry aggregate.

Water and sewer line construction (237110) is a construction code for pipes, not this electric-distribution class. The two infrastructure-sounding hubs are not interchangeable.

Energy NAICS codes split distribution service, construction, and equipment manufacturing. Electric power distribution (221122) is the distribution-utility tag at $6,636,429,225.14 on 2,707 awards, about $2.5 million per award. Power boiler manufacturing (332410) is a goods tag. Water and sewer construction (237110) is a civil-construction tag. This $6.6 billion is electric distribution tagged 221122.

Utility-style obligations versus cash paid

Power-distribution contracts can obligate estimated service and pay on monthly invoices, or they can obligate construction-like distribution work and pay on milestones. This packet does not split those types. The $6.6 billion is the obligation total, not kilowatt-hours already consumed.

The 2,707-award count is not a meter count. Multiple facilities can sit inside one award. Dividing dollars by awards is not a residential rate.

Federal sites buy power, pay distribution charges, and sometimes contract for distribution-system work. Utility tariffs paid without a NAICS-tagged contract will not appear here. This hub is the tagged 221122 slice, not every federal electricity payment.

What the distribution tag leaves out

Rural-utility assistance and other energy grants often lack NAICS and do not enter $6,636,429,225.14. Generation, transmission-construction, and boiler-manufacturing NAICS are separate pages.

A mixed energy contract will carry one principal NAICS. Only 221122-tagged actions sit in this total.

How to use the 221122 hub

Read $6.6 billion and 2,707 awards as the electric-distribution contract tag, then open the electric power distribution industry page for award-level fields. Rank utility NAICS on the all-industries index without converting them into a national electricity bill.

This guide does not add kWh because kilowatt-hours are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

Utility tariffs paid without a NAICS-tagged contract will not appear here. SpendingVault reports the tagged 221122 sum, not every federal electricity payment.

Extract updates will move $6,636,429,225.14 and 2,707 with USAspending.

How to keep kWh and plant builds out of the distribution total

No kilowatt-hour field appears in the packet facts, so $2.5 million is not a residential rate and not a cost per kWh. Building a generating plant uses construction or manufacturing NAICS when that is the principal purpose. Those dollars are not automatically in 221122.

Open the electric power distribution industry page for award-level fields. Rank utility NAICS codes on the all-industries index. Cite USAspending.gov. Assistance without NAICS — including many rural-energy grants — stays outside. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on monthly service vehicles.

Electric power distribution at $6,636,429,225.14 on 2,707 awards is a utility-service tag. The mean of about $2.5 million is not a residential rate and not a cost per kilowatt-hour. kWh are not in the packet facts.

Boiler manufacturing and water-and-sewer construction are different classes. Utility tariffs paid without a NAICS-tagged contract will not appear here. Open the electric power distribution industry page for award-level fields. Cite USAspending.gov. Rural-energy grants often lack NAICS and stay outside the $6.6 billion.

Two thousand seven hundred seven distribution awards at $6,636,429,225.14 are tagged utility-service contracts, not a national electricity bill. Kilowatt-hours are not in the facts. Plant construction and boiler manufacturing are other classes. Tariffs paid without a NAICS-tagged contract never appear here. Open the electric power distribution industry page. Cite USAspending.gov. Rural-energy assistance often omits NAICS.

The 2,707-award count is the thickness of this distribution book; $6,636,429,225.14 is the scale. Neither figure is a household utility rate. Keep manufacturing and civil-construction NAICS on their own hubs when the question leaves 221122. Those two packet facts — 2,707 awards and $6.6 billion obligated — are the whole quantitative claim this guide is allowed to make.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 221122?
Electric power distribution contracts in USAspending show $6,636,429,225.14 in obligations across 2,707 awards. That is a distribution-service tag, not power-plant construction and not boiler manufacturing. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Open the industry page for award rows behind $6,636,429,225.14 and the count of 2,707.
What is the average 221122 award?
Dividing $6,636,429,225.14 by 2,707 awards yields about $2.5 million. That mean is not a residential electricity rate and not a cost per kilowatt-hour. Service vehicles and distribution-system work share the average. The packet does not publish kWh or a median.
Does this include building power plants?
Only if the officer tagged plant construction as 221122, which would be an unusual principal-purpose choice. Construction and manufacturing NAICS codes measure those buys. This $6.6 billion is the electric power distribution tag. Use construction and manufacturing hubs for those totals.
Are rural energy grants in this total?
Usually no. Assistance awards often omit NAICS and therefore do not enter $6.6 billion. This aggregate is built from contract awards tagged 221122. Program pages are the better surface for grant-funded energy work. Program pages remain the better surface for grant-funded energy work that never received NAICS 221122.

NAICS from USAspending contract awards. Assistance awards may not carry NAICS.