Department of Energy federal obligations in Tennessee
Department of Energy obligations coded to Tennessee total $106,535,960,462.43 on USAspending.gov, carried on 545 awards. Awarding-agency 089 and Tennessee (TN) form one of the thinnest high-dollar joins in this slice. Five hundred forty-five rows against more than a hundred billion dollars is a vehicle-size story, not a census of Tennessee energy customers. The source is USAspending.gov; the amounts are obligations, not outlays.
Key figures
- DOE in Tennessee: $106,535,960,462.43 on 545 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $195.5 million per record—a thin, high-dollar file.
- Agency 089 × TN does not name sites and does not prove causation.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
A 545-row Energy book on a Tennessee tag
Filter to Department of Energy. Filter to Tennessee place-of-performance. 545 records remain. They add to $106,535,960,462.43. The implied mean is about $195.5 million per award—among the highest means you can compute from this packet’s two integers. A management-and-operating contract or a major site vehicle can occupy one row and move the state cell by billions.
The mean is a ratio, not a typical invoice. It does not say Tennessee households received $195.5 million each. It says the 545-row average is dominated by large instruments.
Department of Energy in Tennessee is the live overlay for the same pair. Tennessee federal spending still folds in every other awarding agency. Do not substitute the statewide hub for this 089 cell. Five hundred forty-five rows is few enough that a journalist can be tempted to name the “real” site. This packet does not. $106,535,960,462.43 stays statewide for agency 089. Inventing a site share is not a trivial percentage of the published facts; it is a new dataset.
Sites, science, and missing packet fields
This packet does not name Oak Ridge, Y-12, or any other site. Popular geography is not a license to assign $106,535,960,462.43 to a named campus. Place-of-performance on Energy awards often follows site coding, and a handful of rows can explain most of a 545-record file. Attribution below the state needs another extract.
Scientific output, cleanup acres, and classified weapons lines beyond the public file are unpublished here. $106,535,960,462.43 remains an obligation rollup. Missing programs may be absent from USAspending.gov rather than zero. Tennessee did not “earn” the cell by appearing next to agency 089. The join is not causation. Cleanup, enrichment, and research are ordinary Energy verbs. None of them is a field here. The 545-award file and $106,535,960,462.43 do not grade those activities. Department of Energy in Tennessee is an obligation overlay, not a mission report.
Commitments that may outlay later
Long site vehicles often record obligations years before cash fully leaves the Treasury. $106,535,960,462.43 should not be read as money already spent in Tennessee. Outlay tables from DOE or Treasury are a different series.
Nashville’s state budget is not the 545-award file. Mixing them invents a hybrid ledger this page will not publish. Five hundred forty-five Tennessee Energy rows can be dominated by a few instruments. Publishing a “typical award” from $106,535,960,462.43 is therefore misleading even though the mean near $195.5 million is a valid ratio of packet facts. Department of Energy in Tennessee remains an overlay, not a vendor list. Site names stay off this page because they are not in the extract.
Statewide TN only
East-versus-west Tennessee stories, or a single-county site map, are outside this packet. 545 awards and $106,535,960,462.43 stay statewide.
Department of Energy holds 089 without a Tennessee filter. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. A single modification on a large vehicle can swing both the dollar total and the mean on a file this thin.
Citing DOE in Tennessee
Write: USAspending.gov shows $106,535,960,462.43 in Department of Energy obligations on 545 awards coded to Tennessee (agency 089). Keep both sides of the join. Keep the obligation label.
Prefer the overlay Department of Energy in Tennessee if the extract has moved since this snapshot. If you need peer context, open other Energy-state joins from All spending ties rather than ranking Tennessee as more important because 545 rows carry a large book. Importance is not a field. Tennessee federal spending still includes every awarding agency besides 089. Quote $106,535,960,462.43 only with the obligation word and both sides of the join.
Reusing the Tennessee Energy integers
Cite Department of Energy, Tennessee, $106,535,960,462.43, and 545 awards together. Tennessee federal spending is the all-agency parent. Department of Energy is the 089 parent. All spending ties is the series. Do not add those parents to this cell.
The implied mean near $195.5 million is a ratio of two packet facts. It is not a typical invoice and not a household bill. Do not per-capita $106,535,960,462.43. Population is unpublished. Thin files move. Recheck Department of Energy in Tennessee after ingests. Keep the obligation label. USAspending.gov is the source; this JSON is a snapshot.
Questions
- How much Energy spending is coded to Tennessee?
- USAspending.gov lists $106,535,960,462.43 in Department of Energy obligations across 545 Tennessee-coded awards. That is awarding agency 089 joined to TN, not an outlay total and not Tennessee’s full federal book. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Energy in Tennessee is the live overlay for this pair. $106,535,960,462.43 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 545 awards.
- Why so few awards for more than $106 billion?
- 545 records against $106,535,960,462.43 imply very large vehicles on average, about $195.5 million per award. Size mix is not a verdict on efficiency. The packet does not itemize those 545 rows. This packet publishes only the Department of Energy (agency 089) join inside Tennessee coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $106,535,960,462.43 and 545 together.
- Is this the Oak Ridge budget?
- The packet does not name sites. $106,535,960,462.43 and 545 awards are statewide for DOE in Tennessee. Site ledgers are a different extract. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $106,535,960,462.43 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 545 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
- Where is the live table?
- Department of Energy in Tennessee is the overlay. Tennessee federal spending and Department of Energy are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. Tennessee federal spending and Department of Energy are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $106,535,960,462.43. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.