Department of Energy federal obligations in Texas

A thin Energy file on a Texas tag

Department of Energy as awarding agency, Texas as place-of-performance: 642 records summing to $6,055,634,912.71. A Department of Energy award coded outside TX is out. An award in Texas from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A Los Alamos-coded award is New Mexico, not this cell.

Six hundred forty-two awards against $6,055,634,912.71 is a thin, high-mean Energy pattern. One restatement can move the mean quickly. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 642 as 642 unique kilowatt-hours, named laboratories, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Energy in Texas is the both-keys table. Texas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Energy is the agency book without a TX filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name Pantex, national labs, or grid operators. Facility folklore is a different extract. Correlation is not causation: Texas did not “cause” $6,055,634,912.71 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 089 × TX only.

Not a lab roster or a kWh dashboard

$6,055,634,912.71 does not measure kilowatt-hours, named laboratories, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 089 and a TX place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 642 awards as a census of kilowatt-hours, named laboratories, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Texas federal spending or Department of Energy matched $6,055,634,912.71 and 642, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana Energy joins are other pairs, not addends.

Texas, not a national-lab map

Place of performance TX is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Texas (TX) excludes New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. A Los Alamos-coded award is New Mexico, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name Pantex, national labs, or grid operators. Facility folklore is a different extract. This packet does not split $6,055,634,912.71 by city, county, or named facility. 642 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few rows, large vehicles, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $6,055,634,912.71 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Texas confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Texas’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 642-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 $6,055,634,912.71.

Citing Energy in Texas

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Energy (agency 089) obligated $6,055,634,912.71 on 642 awards coded to Texas. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as kilowatt-hours, named laboratories, or unique contractors.

Prefer Department of Energy in Texas if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Texas federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to TX. Department of Energy is the 089 parent without the TX filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $6,055,634,912.71.

A usable footnote names Department of Energy, Texas, $6,055,634,912.71, and 642. The compact headline $6.06 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $9.43 million is $6,055,634,912.71 divided by 642. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Energy obligated in Texas?

USAspending.gov records $6,055,634,912.71 across 642 awards with awarding agency 089 and a Texas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of kilowatt-hours, named laboratories, or unique contractors. Department of Energy in Texas is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $6,055,634,912.71.

Is $6,055,634,912.71 a measure of kilowatt-hours, named laboratories, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $6,055,634,912.71 and 642 awards for agency 089 inside TX 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 642 awards?

That is the award-record count for 089 × TX. Combined with $6,055,634,912.71, the average is about $9.43 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 642 is not unique kilowatt-hours, named laboratories, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Energy in Texas is the overlay. Texas 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 $6,055,634,912.71. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.