Department of Energy in Louisiana

A thin Energy file on a Louisiana tag

Department of Energy as awarding agency, Louisiana as place-of-performance: 152 records summing to $3,525,343,480.38. A Department of Energy award coded outside LA is out. An award in Louisiana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A Houston-coded award is Texas, not this cell.

One hundred fifty-two awards against $3,525,343,480.38 is a thin, high-mean Energy pattern. One restatement can move the mean quickly. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 152 as 152 unique kilowatt-hours, named plants, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Energy in Louisiana is the both-keys table. Louisiana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Energy is the agency book without an LA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name SPR sites, petrochemical complexes, or grid operators. Facility folklore is a different extract. Correlation is not causation: Louisiana did not “cause” $3,525,343,480.38 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 089 × LA only.

Not a plant roster or a kWh dashboard

$3,525,343,480.38 does not measure kilowatt-hours, named plants, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 089 and an LA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 152 awards as a census of kilowatt-hours, named plants, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Louisiana federal spending or Department of Energy matched $3,525,343,480.38 and 152, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi Energy joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Energy obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $3,525,343,480.38 across 152 awards with awarding agency 089 and a Louisiana tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of kilowatt-hours, named plants, or unique contractors. Department of Energy in Louisiana is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $3,525,343,480.38.

Is $3,525,343,480.38 a measure of kilowatt-hours, named plants, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $3,525,343,480.38 and 152 awards for agency 089 inside LA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Energy file have 152 awards?

That is the award-record count for 089 × LA. Combined with $3,525,343,480.38, the average is about $23.19 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 152 is not unique kilowatt-hours, named plants, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Energy in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana federal spending and Department of Energy are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $3,525,343,480.38. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.