Department of Energy federal obligations in Minnesota

Energy awards tagged to Minnesota

Department of Energy as awarding agency, Minnesota as place-of-performance: 184 records summing to $1,442,073,467.29. A Department of Energy award coded outside MN is out. An award in Minnesota from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Minnesota (MN) excludes Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Canada. A Wisconsin-coded award is WI even if the grid ties across the river.

One hundred eighty-four records against $1,442,073,467.29 is a thin Energy file. A high implied mean can sit beside a modest row count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 184 as 184 unique megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects. The overlay Department of Energy in Minnesota is the both-keys table. Minnesota federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Energy is the agency book without an MN filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named utilities are unpublished. Assigning $1,442,073,467.29 to a single plant is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: Minnesota did not cause $1,442,073,467.29 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 089 × MN only.

Not a wind-farm or nuclear headcount

$1,442,073,467.29 does not measure megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 089 and an MN place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 184 awards as a census of megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Minnesota federal spending or Department of Energy matched $1,442,073,467.29 and 184, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota Energy joins are other pairs, not addends.

Minnesota, not a Twin Cities-only map

Place of performance MN is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Minnesota (MN) excludes Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Canada. A Wisconsin-coded award is WI even if the grid ties across the river. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Named utilities are unpublished. Assigning $1,442,073,467.29 to a single plant is a new extract. This packet does not split $1,442,073,467.29 by city, county, or named facility. 184 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligation stock versus invoices paid

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,442,073,467.29 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Minnesota confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Minnesota’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 184-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 $1,442,073,467.29.

Citing Energy in Minnesota

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (agency 089) obligated $1,442,073,467.29 on 184 awards coded to Minnesota. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects.

Prefer Department of Energy in Minnesota if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Minnesota federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MN. Department of Energy is the 089 parent without the MN filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,442,073,467.29.

A usable footnote names Department of Energy, Minnesota, $1,442,073,467.29, and 184. The compact headline $1.44 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $7.84 million is $1,442,073,467.29 divided by 184. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Energy obligated in Minnesota?

USAspending.gov records $1,442,073,467.29 across 184 awards with awarding agency 089 and a Minnesota tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects. Department of Energy in Minnesota is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,442,073,467.29.

Is $1,442,073,467.29 a measure of megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects?

No. The packet publishes $1,442,073,467.29 and 184 awards for agency 089 inside MN 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 184 awards?

That is the award-record count for 089 × MN. Combined with $1,442,073,467.29, the average is about $7.84 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 184 is not unique megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Energy in Minnesota is the overlay. Minnesota 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 $1,442,073,467.29. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.