Cogen Technologies and the 2012 FEC election cycle
Donors listing Cogen Technologies reported $1,039,766 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 21 contributions from seven donors. The figure is a slice of the Cogen Technologies employer grouping, not a company PAC and not a ranking of power producers. This page joins that employer string to the 2012 two-year window so a seven-person cell can sit beside a seven-figure total without being mistaken for a plant-level census. Seven donors at about $148,538 each can move the mean; treat that figure as arithmetic for this energy-employer cell, not as a plant payroll statistic. Do not treat seven donors as a cogeneration-industry ranking for 2012. Plant-site names and successor legal entities remain other keys if they exist.
Key figures
- Cogen Technologies × 2012 is $1,039,766 in itemized individual contributions.
- The cell includes 21 contributions from 7 donors.
- 2012 is about 14.7% of the grouping’s $7,077,109 all-cycle total.
- Employer text is self-reported; the sum is not a corporate PAC.
- FEC gifts and federal energy awards remain separate datasets.
Cogen Technologies crossed with 2012
Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Cogen Technologies and 2012 — sum to $1,039,766. The total is not an official company disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.
The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $7,077,109. The 2012 slice is about 14.7% of that running sum. A presidential-year window that accounts for roughly one-seventh of the key’s history is a real cell. It is not a substitute for the unfiltered employer hub, and it is not a ranking against other energy strings.
How the Cogen Technologies string is matched
Filers type employer text. Cogen Technologies collects strings that match this name. A longer legal name, a plant-site name, or a successor entity can land on a neighboring key. This join does not merge those neighbors. Cite only what this key recorded in 2012.
Seven donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of a cogeneration payroll. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace can appear. The Commission does not certify employment.
Treat $7,077,109 as the denominator for the 14.7% share. It is not a plant valuation and not proof of a multi-year corporate program. Neighboring energy keys keep their own denominators.
21 contributions from 7 donors
Dividing $1,039,766 by 21 contributions yields about $49,513 per itemized gift. Dividing by 7 donors yields about $148,538 per donor. Contributions per donor average 3.0. Those means describe a concentrated cell with a high per-donor average. They are not medians and not a party split.
Seven donors is small enough that a few identities can move the mean. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count, which is why 21 and 7 should be read as a pair. The overlay for Cogen Technologies 2012 is the row view. Do not read $148,538 as a typical employee’s political budget. Exactly three lines per donor among seven energy-employer identities at about $49,513 per gift is a concentrated plant-name cell, not a sector ranking.
2012 without an energy ranking
The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Cogen Technologies is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Presidential-year volume belongs on the cycle hub.
Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Cogen Technologies to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other relationship pages that must not inherit these seven donors.
Limits of the energy-employer join
Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $1,039,766. Federal energy awards in USAspending are a different dataset. Sharing a cogeneration name and a calendar year does not fund those awards with these gifts.
Correlation between an energy employer string and a presidential-year cycle is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 7 donors, and 21 contributions. Plant and policy outcomes are not in the table.
Carrying 7 donors only inside 2012
Start with $1,039,766, then Cogen Technologies 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. That path keeps two filters and one cell.
The 14.7% share, the 7-donor count, and the $148,538 per-donor mean belong to this intersection. Carry them into another year and they stop being facts from this packet. Twenty-one contributions and a 14.7 percent share of $7,077,109 belong to Cogen Technologies in 2012. Site-level or successor legal names that filers typed differently live elsewhere. Federal energy awards remain a different universe from these itemized individual receipts.
Questions
- How much did Cogen Technologies donors give in 2012?
- FEC.gov aggregates show $1,039,766 in itemized individual contributions for the Cogen Technologies grouping in 2012, across 21 contributions and 7 donors. That sum is not a company PAC total.
- What share of Cogen Technologies FEC money is 2012?
- The grouping’s all-cycle total is $7,077,109. The 2012 cell of $1,039,766 is about 14.7% of that figure. Other cycles are not listed on this page.
- Does this mean the company donated $1,039,766?
- No. The amount is the sum of itemized individual contributions whose employer field matched Cogen Technologies. FEC employer text is self-reported. The join does not identify corporate treasury gifts.
- Where is the overlay for this join?
- Open Cogen Technologies 2012 for the cycle overlay, Cogen Technologies for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.