Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience in Minnesota

Minnesota paired with CFDA 81.254

CFDA 81.254 is titled GRID INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT AND RESILIENCE. Crossed with Minnesota place of performance, obligations sum to $656,211,749 on 14 awards. The national 81.254 hub includes other states. Minnesota’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $656,211,749 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of substations in the Twin Cities.

Fourteen awards is a infrastructure-grant pattern: grid-resilience assistance often posts as a modest number of large instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $656,211,749, 14 awards, MN, and 81.254. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep grid infrastructure and resilience and Minnesota together when reading $656,211,749.

81.254 is not LIHEAP in Minnesota

LIHEAP and weatherization use different CFDA numbers. Mixing those series into $656,211,749 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Minnesota, CFDA 81.254, $656,211,749, 14 awards. Utility names, project titles, and miles of line are unpublished.

The catalog title names grid infrastructure deployment and resilience, not a ranking of utilities. Dividing $656,211,749 by 14 yields about $46.87 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 14 is not a utility or project census.

Questions

How much grid-resilience funding is obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending records $656,211,749 in CFDA 81.254 obligations with Minnesota place of performance on 14 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Grid Infrastructure Deployment And Resilience and Minnesota together when citing $656,211,749.

Does 14 awards mean 14 Minnesota utilities?

14 is a USAspending award-record count, not a utility or project census. The implied mean is about $46.87 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 14 is a record count, not a person or facility census.

Is this Minnesota’s total federal energy spending?

No. This join is CFDA 81.254 only. LIHEAP and other energy catalogs appear on separate Minnesota program pages. Nationwide 81.254 is not limited to Minnesota. Obligations of $656,211,749 are not outlays. The overlay is the live grid infrastructure and resilience–Minnesota table.

Do these obligations equal construction finished?

No. $656,211,749 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 81.254 × MN pair.