Department of Energy federal obligations in North Carolina

Energy awards tagged to North Carolina

Department of Energy as awarding agency, North Carolina as place-of-performance: 322 records summing to $1,372,127,974.11. A Department of Energy award coded outside NC is out. An award in North Carolina from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. North Carolina (NC) excludes South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. A South Carolina-coded award is SC even if the site sits on the border.

Three hundred twenty-two records against $1,372,127,974.11 is a thin-to-mid Energy file, not a thick assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 322 as 322 unique megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects. The overlay Department of Energy in North Carolina is the both-keys table. North Carolina federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Energy is the agency book without an NC filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Named Triangle labs are unpublished. Assigning $1,372,127,974.11 to a single campus is a new extract. Correlation is not causation: North Carolina did not cause $1,372,127,974.11 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 089 × NC only.

Not a Research Triangle lab census

$1,372,127,974.11 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 NC place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 322 awards as a census of megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If North Carolina federal spending or Department of Energy matched $1,372,127,974.11 and 322, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. South Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee Energy joins are other pairs, not addends.

North Carolina statewide, not a Triangle-versus-coast split

Place of performance NC is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. North Carolina (NC) excludes South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia. A South Carolina-coded award is SC even if the site sits on the border. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Named Triangle labs are unpublished. Assigning $1,372,127,974.11 to a single campus is a new extract. This packet does not split $1,372,127,974.11 by city, county, or named facility. 322 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Thin-to-mid files still mean obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,372,127,974.11 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in North Carolina confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

North Carolina’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 322-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 $1,372,127,974.11.

Citing Energy in North Carolina

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (agency 089) obligated $1,372,127,974.11 on 322 awards coded to North Carolina. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects.

Prefer Department of Energy in North Carolina if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. North Carolina federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to NC. Department of Energy is the 089 parent without the NC filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,372,127,974.11.

A usable footnote names Department of Energy, North Carolina, $1,372,127,974.11, and 322. The compact headline $1.37 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $4.26 million is $1,372,127,974.11 divided by 322. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Energy obligated in North Carolina?

USAspending.gov records $1,372,127,974.11 across 322 awards with awarding agency 089 and a North Carolina 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 North Carolina is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,372,127,974.11.

Is $1,372,127,974.11 a measure of megawatts, lab headcount, or unique energy projects?

No. The packet publishes $1,372,127,974.11 and 322 awards for agency 089 inside NC 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 322 awards?

That is the award-record count for 089 × NC. Combined with $1,372,127,974.11, the average is about $4.26 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 322 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 North Carolina is the overlay. North Carolina 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 $1,372,127,974.11. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.