New Empowering Rural America (New Era) Program in Minnesota

What the 10.758–Minnesota join is

CFDA 10.758 is titled NEW EMPOWERING RURAL AMERICA (NEW ERA) PROGRAM. Crossed with Minnesota place of performance, obligations sum to $976,632,137 on 12 awards. The national New ERA hub includes other states. Minnesota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $976,632,137 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of rural electric cooperatives in St. Paul or on the Iron Range.

Twelve awards is a concentrated rural-energy pattern: New ERA assistance often posts as a modest number of large awards to cooperatives and similar borrowers. The join does not name those co-ops, list generation assets, or count meters. Packet facts stop at $976,632,137, 12 awards, MN, and 10.758. Correlation is not causation.

10.758 is not BEAD or High Cost USF

Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (CFDA 11.035) and Universal Service Fund High Cost (CFDA 32.002) are different catalogs. Mixing those into $976,632,137 would invent a broader rural-infrastructure total than this cell contains. Facts available: Minnesota, CFDA 10.758, $976,632,137, 12 awards. Project lists and cooperative names are not in the facts.

The catalog title names New Empowering Rural America, not a ranking of carbon intensity. Dividing $976,632,137 by 12 yields about $81.39 million per award—a cooperative-award scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 12 is not a count of substations.

Questions

How much New ERA funding is obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending records $976,632,137 in CFDA 10.758 obligations with Minnesota place of performance on 12 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not BEAD broadband. Keep New Empowering Rural America (New Era) Program and Minnesota together when citing $976,632,137.

Does 12 awards mean 12 rural cooperatives?

12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a cooperative census. The implied mean is about $81.39 million per award. Unique recipients and project names are unpublished. 12 is a record count, not a person or facility census. The overlay is the live New Empowering Rural America (New Era) Program–Minnesota table.

Is this Minnesota’s total federal rural-energy spend?

No. $976,632,137 is only the 10.758 × Minnesota cell. Other USDA and energy catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages. Nationwide 10.758 is not limited to Minnesota. Obligations of $976,632,137 are not outlays. The overlay is the live New Empowering Rural America (New Era) Program–Minnesota table.

Do these obligations equal generation built?

No. $976,632,137 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Megawatts and meter counts are not in the packet facts. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.758 × MN pair. The overlay is the live New Empowering Rural America (New Era) Program–Minnesota table.