Department of Energy federal obligations in Oregon

Energy awards tagged to Oregon

Department of Energy as awarding agency, Oregon as place-of-performance: 237 records summing to $1,468,515,690.02. A Department of Energy award coded outside OR is out. An award in Oregon from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Oregon (OR) excludes Washington, California, Idaho, and Nevada. A Hanford-coded award is Washington, not this cell.

Two hundred thirty-seven records against $1,468,515,690.02 is a thin Energy file: few rows, large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 237 as 237 unique megawatts, dam output, or unique energy projects. The overlay Department of Energy in Oregon is the both-keys table. Oregon federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Energy is the agency book without an OR filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Portland is unpublished as a metro share. Named labs are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Oregon did not cause $1,468,515,690.02 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 089 × OR only.

Hydropower output is not a USAspending field

$1,468,515,690.02 does not measure megawatts, dam output, 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 OR place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 237 awards as a census of megawatts, dam output, or unique energy projects. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Oregon federal spending or Department of Energy matched $1,468,515,690.02 and 237, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, California, and Idaho Energy joins are other pairs, not addends.

Oregon, not a Pacific Northwest rollup

Place of performance OR is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Oregon (OR) excludes Washington, California, Idaho, and Nevada. A Hanford-coded award is Washington, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Portland is unpublished as a metro share. Named labs are unpublished. This packet does not split $1,468,515,690.02 by city, county, or named facility. 237 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Thin files still mean obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,468,515,690.02 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Oregon confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Oregon’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 237-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 $1,468,515,690.02.

Citing Energy in Oregon

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (agency 089) obligated $1,468,515,690.02 on 237 awards coded to Oregon. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as megawatts, dam output, or unique energy projects.

Prefer Department of Energy in Oregon if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Oregon federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to OR. Department of Energy is the 089 parent without the OR filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,468,515,690.02.

A usable footnote names Department of Energy, Oregon, $1,468,515,690.02, and 237. The compact headline $1.47 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $6.20 million is $1,468,515,690.02 divided by 237. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Two hundred thirty-seven records against $1,468,515,690.02 is a thin Energy file: few rows, large dollars. On this join the implied mean near $6.20 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $1,468,515,690.02 can be dominated by a few rows even when 237 is large, or by those same few rows when 237 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 Oregon (OR). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Portland is unpublished as a metro share. Named labs are unpublished.

Questions

How much has the Department of Energy obligated in Oregon?

USAspending.gov records $1,468,515,690.02 across 237 awards with awarding agency 089 and an Oregon tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of megawatts, dam output, or unique energy projects. Department of Energy in Oregon is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,468,515,690.02.

Is $1,468,515,690.02 a measure of megawatts, dam output, or unique energy projects?

No. The packet publishes $1,468,515,690.02 and 237 awards for agency 089 inside OR 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 237 awards?

That is the award-record count for 089 × OR. Combined with $1,468,515,690.02, the average is about $6.20 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 237 is not unique megawatts, dam output, 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 Oregon is the overlay. Oregon 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 $1,468,515,690.02. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.