A new study by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on the potential implications of allowing more crude oil exports finds that effects on domestic crude oil production are key to determining the other effects of a policy change. …read…
Month: December 2015
EIA’s newly designed coal web pages provides easier access to coal data
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) redesigned the weekly Coal Production report and combined two price reports into a single Coal Markets product to improve access to EIA’s coal data. Users can now access weekly coal production and prices and…
Utility-scale solar in South Atlantic region dominated by North Carolina, Georgia
Most of the utility-scale solar PV electric generating capacity has been installed in the southwestern part of the country in states such as California and Arizona, which together accounted for 64% of the national total as of September 2015. The…
Independent energy assessments confirm quality of EIA’s commercial buildings data
Independent energy assessments of a subset of the buildings surveyed in EIA’s Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey have confirmed the quality of data gathered by interviewers. For instance, 65% of the square footage values collected by the interviewers agreed within…
New database provides monthly inventory and status of U.S. electric generating plants
EIA’s recently introduced Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory consolidates currently available information on electric generators into a single product. This new database will enable users to identify monthly changes in generator status and to track units that are being added…
Four countries added to global shale oil and natural gas resource assessment
EIA continues to expand its assessment of technically recoverable shale oil and shale gas resources around the world. The addition of four countries—Chad, Kazakhstan, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—to a previous assessment covering 42 countries has resulted in…
Mexican crude oil shipments to Europe and Asia are rising as U.S. imports fall
In September 2015, monthly U.S. crude oil imports from Mexico totaled 0.6 million barrels per day (b/d), the lowest level since 1990, and a decrease of about 50% since January 2011. Meanwhile, Mexico’s exports of heavy crude oil to Asia…
Heating oil and propane prices are lower this winter
The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s State Heating Oil and Propane Program (SHOPP) collects state-level residential heating oil and propane price data in 38 states during the winter heating season. SHOPP is a joint effort between EIA and state energy offices…
New legislation affects U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Two recently enacted laws authorize significant sales of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the next decade. The Bipartisan Budget Act authorizes the sale of 58 million barrels of SPR oil between FY 2018-2025 for deficit reduction…
Updated EIA survey provides data on spent nuclear fuel in the United States
The U.S Energy Information Administration recently released data from its Nuclear Fuel Data Survey on the amount, type, and characteristics of spent nuclear fuel once it is discharged from a reactor. As nuclear electricity generation has continued to increase, the…
