Department of Energy federal obligations in California

Few Energy awards, a large California cell

One thousand seven hundred eighteen records carry the Department of Energy awarding-agency tag and a California geography tag. They sum to $118,067,476,398.23. Divide those facts and the implied mean is about $68.7 million per award. National-lab management vehicles and other multi-year actions can each occupy a single row while explaining much of a thin file.

The mean is not a typical small-business purchase order. It is also not proof that small vendors are absent. It shows that large vehicles dominate the average of the 1,718 rows.

This page is the intersection, not DOE nationwide and not California nationwide. Department of Energy in California is the overlay. California federal spending still includes HHS, Defense, and every other awarding agency in the state extract. Thin Energy files punish casual averaging. $118,067,476,398.23 divided by 1,718 is about $68.7 million, but a few vehicles can sit far above that mean and the rest far below. This packet does not publish a median or a top-10 share. Do not treat the mean as a typical California Energy invoice.

What CGAC 089 in California is not

It is not a kilowatt-hour ledger. It is not a cleanup-acre scorecard. $118,067,476,398.23 is an obligation rollup from USAspending.gov. Output metrics live in other DOE publications.

Named laboratories are not packet facts. Place-of-performance often follows site coding on Energy awards, and a handful of rows can dominate a state cell. This page does not attribute $118,067,476,398.23 to a named site because the packet does not name one. Causation language fails here. California did not create $118,067,476,398.23 by hosting research. DOE did not “pick California” in a way this extract can test. The join key is 089 × CA. Readers looking for lithium, grid, or weatherization stories will not find those program names here. $118,067,476,398.23 is awarding agency 089 inside CA coding, not a climate-bill scorecard. Department of Energy in California is the overlay, not a project list.

Obligations on long Energy vehicles

Laboratory and construction commitments often outlay over many years. $118,067,476,398.23 can include amounts still unpaid. Citing it as cash already spent in California misreads the award file.

Sacramento budget documents are not USAspending.gov. Mixing them with 1,718 Energy awards leaves the series this page cites. A 1,718-row Energy file is small enough that restatements matter. If a single management vehicle is corrected in USAspending.gov, both $118,067,476,398.23 and the implied mean near $68.7 million can move without California’s statewide hub changing by the same amount. Department of Energy in California is the cell to reread. Do not backfill the gap with a named laboratory share; the packet does not publish one.

Statewide CA on a thin Energy file

California is a large state tag covering one cell. Northern-versus-southern site stories need a below-state extract. 1,718 awards and $118,067,476,398.23 stay statewide in this packet.

Open Department of Energy for 089 without a California filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. A later ingest can move a thin file quickly: one modification on a large vehicle changes the mean.

Citing the Energy–California pair

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (089) obligated $118,067,476,398.23 on 1,718 awards coded to California. Keep “few awards, large dollars” attached to those integers.

If Department of Energy in California disagrees with this snapshot, quote the overlay. Researchers comparing this join to Department of Energy nationwide should not subtract $118,067,476,398.23 from the agency hub and call the remainder “everywhere except California.” Parent hubs and this cell can use slightly different refresh timings. All spending ties is the series index, not a calculator. Keep the obligation label when you quote 1,718 awards.

Citing a thin California Energy cell

Always pair the small count with the large dollars: 1,718 awards and $118,067,476,398.23. Quoting only the dollars makes the cell sound like a mass-grant file. Quoting only the count makes it sound empty. California federal spending still includes every other awarding agency. Department of Energy still includes every other state. All spending ties indexes the series.

Do not assign the cell to a named laboratory. Do not convert $118,067,476,398.23 into kilowatt-hours. Do not annualize without a year field—this packet has none. Those three steps leave USAspending.gov’s obligation definition. One modification on a large vehicle can swing a 1,718-row mean. If the overlay Department of Energy in California disagrees with this snapshot, the overlay wins. Obligations are not outlays.

Questions

How much has DOE obligated in California?

USAspending.gov records $118,067,476,398.23 in Department of Energy obligations across 1,718 California-coded awards. Agency 089 × CA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not California’s full federal total. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Energy in California is the live overlay for this pair. $118,067,476,398.23 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 1,718 awards.

Why are there only 1,718 Energy awards for so many dollars?

Large laboratory-scale and construction vehicles can each carry a substantial share of $118,067,476,398.23. A low row count with a high dollar total is a size-mix fact, not a finding about waste or efficiency. This packet publishes only the Department of Energy (agency 089) join inside California coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $118,067,476,398.23 and 1,718 together.

Which California lab accounts for this total?

This packet does not name sites. $118,067,476,398.23 and 1,718 awards are statewide for awarding agency 089. Site attribution would need another extract. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $118,067,476,398.23 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 1,718 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DOE–California table?

Department of Energy in California is the overlay. California federal spending and Department of Energy are the parents. All spending ties lists other joins. California federal spending and Department of Energy are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $118,067,476,398.23. Obligations are not outlays.