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Statistics
- Energy Information Administration
Data on energy supply, outlook, production and prices. Covers all major fuel groups.
Annual Energy Review
Analysis and historical data on energy consumption, prices, and resources. Covers all major forms of energy, including coal, petroleum, natural gas, electricity, and renewable sources.
- Monthly Energy Review
The major monthly data source for U.S. production, consumption, trade, supplies, and prices for petroleum, natural gas, coal, electricity, and nuclear energy.
- Energy Basics 101
Basic data by fuel type, such as petroleum, natural gas, and electricity. Also includes sections on energy prices and consumption. From the Energy Information Administration.
- State and U.S. Historical Data
Offers monthly and annual energy data by major energy source such as coal, electricity, natural gas, nuclear, and petroleum. Also covers some international data as well as environmental and other topics. From the Energy Information Administration.
Glossaries
- Energy Glossary
Provides energy terms and definitions as used by the Energy Information Administration in reports, on surveys, and by the energy industry.
Conservation
- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Offers information on renewable and other energy technologies of tomorrow such as fuel cells, solar, wind, geothermal, and FreedomCar. From the Department of Energy.
- A Consumer's Guide to Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Detailed energy savings tips for home, vehicle, and workplace. Also offers link to Energy Savers Booklet and additional resources
- Energy Savings Links
Offers links to general information about energy savings from states, federal agencies and other nations.
- Automobile Energy Efficiency Information
Offers links to a variety of sites with rankings of motor vehicles by emissions, fuel economy, and other considerations.
- Fuel Economy Site
Offers details on fuel efficiency, annual fuel cost, the annual fuel economy guide, and annual greenhouse gas emissions for all makes and models of U.S. and foreign vehicles. Sponsored by the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Home Energy Saver
Features the Energy Advisor, an interactive method for estimating energy consumption based on zip code and/or detailed questions answered by the homeowner. The Energy Librarian offers links to additional resources, including residential utility programs by state. Sponsored by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Energy Prices
- Energy Prices and Trends
Links to various energy statistical publications including Annual Energy Review, Annual Energy Outlook, historical energy data, and, for foreign countries, Country Analysis Briefs. From the Energy Information Administration.
- Gasoline Prices
Features iinformation about the rise in gas prices including current statistics on crude and refined petroleum prices, pump or retail prices, comparative gas prices in selected countries, oil company profits, and an array of proposed political solutions. From the University of Michigan Library Documents Center.
Energy Projections
Energy Sources
Coal
- Coal
Links to data on coal production, supply, and demand, prices, reserves and coal state profiles. From the Energy Information Administration.
Electricity
- Electricity
Links to data on generating capacity, transmission, prices,
state electricity profiles, electricity power plant inventories, financial statistics for electric utility companies and more. From the Energy Information Administration.
- Changing Structure of the Electric Power Industry: An Update.
Comprehensive overview of the structure of the electric power industry over the past ten years, the major changes that have occurred, their causes, and their effects.
- Electricity Transmission in a Restructured Industry
Discusses the changing nature of the electricity industry and data needed to measure performance. From the Energy Information Administration.
- Electricity Restructuring Factsheets
Attempts to answer most frequently asked questions about electricity restructuring relating to supply, demand, pricing, and market competition.
- Residential Electricity Prices: A Consumer's Guide
Basic information about where electricity comes from, what determines its price, and average electricity prices across the U.S. From the Energy Information Administration.
Natural Gas
- Natural Gas
Offers 7 approaches to topic: by geography, sector, process, price, environment, forecasts, and analysis. From the Energy Information Administration.
Nuclear
- Nuclear
Organized by six subject areas: Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Fuel, Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Generation, Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel, Analysis, and Forecasts. From the Energy Information Administration.
Petroleum
- Petroleum
Information arranged into 8 topics: Geography, Sector, Product, Process, Prices, Environment, Forecasts, and Analysis. From the Energy Information Administration.
- Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update
Latest price trends for gasoline and diesel fuel by region. Analyzes price changes and reasons for recent price fluctuations. Offers links to historical data. From the Energy Information Administration.
- Petroleum Marketing Annual
Covers crude oil prices and production/prices for retail sale of refined oil products including motor gasoline, propane, and diesel fuel. From the Energy Information Administration.
- A Primer on Gasoline Prices
Discusses the components of the retail price for gasoline, the reasons for price fluctuations by region and over time, and the reasons for sharp price rises in 2005. From the Energy Information Administration.
- World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970-date
Shows trend of world oil prices and offers a detailed narrative chronology of events affecting prices. From the Energy Information Administration.
Renewable and Alternative
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Information about federal research and development into advanced vehicles and fuels, biomass, building technologies, geothermal, hydrogen and fuel cells, solar and wind. From the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
- Renewable and Alternative Fuels
Technologies covered include Biomass, Geothermal, Hydro, Solar Thermal, Solar Photovoltaic, and Wind. From the Energy Information Administration.
Environmental Issues
International
- Country Analysis Briefs
A series of reports on the countries of the world describing their energy sectors and recent political and economic events affecting the sector. From the Energy Information Administration.
- International Energy Data
Interactive resource. Select country from drop-down table to get related energy data and forecasts for consumption, imports/exports, inventories, generating capacity and so forth. Also offers annual energy data from 1980 and energy projections for 20 year period into the future.
- International Energy Outlook
Trends in global energy demand from 1970 and forecasts of global energy consumption by region for the next twenty years.
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Monthly Energy Chronology
A log of monthly news events with significance for world energy markets. From the Energy Information Administration.
Research and Development Reports
- DOE Information Bridge
Offers free access to Department of Energy sponsored research and development reports in physics, chemistry, biology, computer and information science, energy technologies and other topics since January 1996.
- E-Print Network
Offers online research papers (primarily on physics or energy topics but including some other science areas) that have been submitted for review among peers, pre-prints for publication in journals, or for presentations at conferences. From the Energy Department.
- Energy Citations Database
Offers bibliographic records for energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission, from 1948 to date.
- Federal R and D Project Summaries
Subtitled: "Descriptions, Awards and Summaries of federally-funded research by Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation. Covers more than 200,000 research summaries.
Research and National Security Reports
- Human Radiation Experiments
Special office within the Department of Energy set up to identify and offer electronic access to public documents related to Cold War era radiation experiments using human subjects.
- OpenNet Database
Includes recently declassified material on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons topics. Also includes annual reports on Inadvertent Releases of Restricted Data. From the Office of Nuclear and National Security Information.
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