Department of Energy obligations in Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07)
Place-of-performance MA-07 crossed with Department of Energy (agency 089) yields $621,010,775.67 in USAspending.gov obligations on 180 awards. One hundred eighty Energy-coded awards equal about two percent of MA-07’s district obligation total, a moderate Energy file inside a twenty-six-billion-dollar district base. That pair is Department of Energy and Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) — not Massachusetts’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Energy nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 2.4% of this district’s published obligation total ($25,920,332,886.27). Implied average obligation is about $3,450,059.86 ($621,010,775.67 ÷ 180). Correlation is not causation.
Key figures
- Energy in Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07): $621,010,775.67 across 180 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $3,450,059.86 per record; district share 2.4% of $25,920,332,886.27.
- Agency 089 × MA-07 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
- Cite USAspending.gov; quote Massachusetts 7th District and Department of Energy if live tables moved.
- Massachusetts federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $621,010,775.67.
The Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) filter on Energy
Awarding agency 089 and congressional district MA-07 meet here. $621,010,775.67 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Energy’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split DOE program offices, sites, or contract versus assistance instruments. 180 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a laboratory roster, a site inventory, a megawatt total, or a named-contractor file.
Dividing $621,010,775.67 by 180 yields about $3,450,059.86 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. 180 awards is a moderate Energy file. Share near two percent leaves most of MA-07’s published district total in other awarding agencies. Do not treat MA-07’s 089 cell as a synonym for every Energy account nationwide. Open Massachusetts 7th District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Energy for agency 089 without the MA-07 filter, Massachusetts federal spending for every awarding agency in the Massachusetts extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $621,010,775.67.
The Department of Energy awarding-agency rollup
USAspending labels awarding agency 089 as Department of Energy. That code produced $621,010,775.67 when crossed with Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) place of performance. The agency-wide 089 hub does not require MA-07 geography. The district hub does not require Energy. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 180 awards. The packet does not split DOE program offices, sites, or contract versus assistance instruments.
Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) did not “cause” $621,010,775.67 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 089 × MA-07 only. It is not a laboratory roster, a site inventory, a megawatt total, or a named-contractor file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.
Reading the MA-07 stamp
Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list MA-07 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other Massachusetts districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 089. Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside Massachusetts. Other Massachusetts districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 089. Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) is a numbered place-of-performance geography inside Massachusetts. Other Massachusetts districts are not this join.
Massachusetts federal spending shows how agency 089 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $621,010,775.67 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Energy. The district-wide obligation total published here is $25,920,332,886.27; $621,010,775.67 is the Energy slice of that denominator.
USAspending obligations on this pair
USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $621,010,775.67 is that kind of sum for Department of Energy inside MA-07 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $621,010,775.67 as given.
Massachusetts’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 180-row Energy cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 180 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($3,450,059.86) is a concentration statistic, not a typical MA-07 Energy payment.
Citing $621,010,775.67 without dropping a join side
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (agency 089) obligated $621,010,775.67 on 180 awards coded to Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07). Name Department of Energy and Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) together. Keep the obligation word. If Massachusetts 7th District or Department of Energy has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a laboratory roster, a site inventory, a megawatt total, or a named-contractor file. 2.4% of $25,920,332,886.27 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.
Row count versus dollar concentration
180 awards is a moderate Energy file. Share near two percent leaves most of MA-07’s published district total in other awarding agencies. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $3,450,059.86) and the district share (2.4% of $25,920,332,886.27) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer Massachusetts 7th District and Department of Energy if the live tables moved.
Questions
- How much Energy spending is coded to Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07)?
- USAspending.gov lists $621,010,775.67 in Energy (agency 089) obligations across 180 awards coded to Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07). That pair is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 2.4% of the district’s published total ($25,920,332,886.27). Unique recipients are unpublished.
- Does $621,010,775.67 include every Energy program in MA-07?
- The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split DOE program offices, sites, or contract versus assistance instruments. $621,010,775.67 is the combined obligation sum for agency 089 inside MA-07 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. 180 remains an action count, not a program count.
- Is $621,010,775.67 cash already paid in Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07)?
- No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $621,010,775.67 as checks already cleared in Massachusetts 7th District (MA-07) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 180 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
- Why is the implied average $3,450,059.86 not a typical award?
- The average is $621,010,775.67 divided by 180 awards, about $3,450,059.86. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.