Department of Energy federal obligations 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 Unique recipients are unpublished.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.

Louisiana, not a Gulf energy rollup

Place of performance LA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A Houston-coded award is Texas, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name SPR sites, petrochemical complexes, or grid operators. Facility folklore is a different extract. This packet does not split $3,525,343,480.38 by city, county, or named facility. 152 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few rows, large vehicles, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $3,525,343,480.38 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Louisiana confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Louisiana’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 152-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $3,525,343,480.38.

Citing Energy in Louisiana

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (agency 089) obligated $3,525,343,480.38 on 152 awards coded to Louisiana. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as kilowatt-hours, named plants, or unique contractors.

Prefer Department of Energy in Louisiana if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Louisiana federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to LA. Department of Energy is the 089 parent without the LA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $3,525,343,480.38.

A usable footnote names Department of Energy, Louisiana, $3,525,343,480.38, and 152. The compact headline $3.53 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $23.19 million is $3,525,343,480.38 divided by 152. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

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. On this join the implied mean near $23.19 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $3,525,343,480.38 can be dominated by a few rows even when 152 is large, or by those same few rows when 152 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: Department of Energy (089) and Louisiana (LA). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. This packet does not name SPR sites, petrochemical complexes, or grid operators. Facility folklore is a different extract.

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.