Energy Resources

Educational Internet & Literature Resources

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/207/energy.html)

Internet Sites:

• Oil
  • Oil Online [information about the oil industry]

  • World Oil Reserves, Production, and Consumption, 2001 [www.ott.doe.gov/facts/archives/fotw220.shtml] The U.S. Department of Energy reorganized its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in July 2002. As a result, key aspects of the Office of Transportation Technologies (OTT) have been incorporated into the FreedomCAR & Vehicle Technologies Program.
  • World Oil & Gas Reserves (by country for 2001) [www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/table81.html]
  • This is Africa as it looks to oil people
  • Petroleum Product Prices Rise
  • Crude Oil Production in the U.S. [with map, by state]

• International Energy Agency
  • IEA G8/G20 Programme - Aiming at a Clean, Clever and Competitive Energy Future [www.iea.org/g8/]

• Energy Information Administration (DOE) The Energy Information Administration (since 1977) has just what its name says: lots of energy information. We have four types of information products: Energy data, analyses, forecasts, and descriptive information about our products. Many of the products, such as the Petroleum Supply Monthly, deal with specific industries. Of particular value to a broad range of customers are our products that contain data on all fuel types presented in an integrated manner. Some key releases of integrated information are
  1. Fact of the Week Archives for 2003
  2. the Monthly Energy Review,
  3. the Annual Energy Review,
  4. the Short-Term Energy Outlook, and
  5. the Annual Energy Outlook.

• The Energy Department's Science Page

• Congress:
  • The Committee on Energy & Commerce, House of Representatives
  • Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  • Congress:

• Energy (Virtual Library)

• CERI: Canadian Energy Research Institute [http://www.ceri.ca/pub_list.htm] Publication List

• CRESP Resource Page [CONSORTIUM FOR RISK EVALUATION WITH STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION]
  • Resource/Library Page

• Kentucky Coal Council's Coal Education Web Site

• World Coal Institute ["... is a non-governmental, non-profit, independent organisation with membership open to coal producers and coal consumers from around the world."]

• DOE Risk Information Management System

• IIASA - Options - Fall/Winter 1995: Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies Researchers study ways to provide environmentally friendly energy services to a growing world population; By Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Project Leader

• Alternative Energies
  • Alternative ("green") Energy for Maui (Hawaii)

  • Solar Energy
    • Solar World (Germany, California & Oregon) [Video] | (24.02.2012) | Solar World USA | Solar World (deutsch) | Solar World (english) | Trina, Solarworld post losses, German cuts hit stocks (Reuters, Feb 23, 2012) | Look for installer of Solar World panels "The collapse of solar panel prices drove China's Trina Solar Ltd and Germany's SolarWorld AG to post losses, results that could worsen as Germany announced new cuts to the subsidies that have made the country the world's largest solar consumer. Shares across the solar sector sank after the Germany announced faster-than-expected cuts to its solar subsidies, raising fears that demand there could fall by more than half this year...."
    • http://www.streettech.com/archives_DIY/solarCharger.html
    • http://www.backwoodssolar.com/
    • http://wildwestweb.com/

    • Recent Videos:

      • The "Old House" goes solar (PBS,2012)

      • Solar World (Germany, California & Oregon) [Video]

  • Canadian Wind Energy Association [http://www.canwea.ca/]

  • Solstice [Internet information service of the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), and your site for Sustainable Energy and Development Information.]

  • Energy Information Administration

  • Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network [EREN]

• US DOE Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC)

• DOE: Fossil Fuel Energy Research

• National Renewable Energy Lab

• USGS Energy Resources Program Publications, Products, and Data

• The US Department of Energy's main page [US DOE]

• CORDIS:  Community Research and Development Information Service

Washington / Pacific Northwest

• Washington State Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC)
• Northwest Power Planning Council (Central Office: Portland Oregon)
• Bonneville Power Administration

  "BPA is a federal agency that serves the 10 million people of the Pacific Northwest. It is part of the U.S. Department of Energy.
  BPA supplies roughly half of the electricity used in the Northwest. The power comes primarily from 29 federal dams, and is the result of international development of the Columbia River for multiple purposes.
  Northwest utilities and a few large industries buy BPA power; utilities resell it to homes, businesses and other consumers. BPA delivers this electricity at wholesale over a grid of high-voltage power lines that ties the region together. Utilities also use BPA?s grid to transmit power of their own."

• Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council

• Community, Trade and Economic Development

• Institute for Public Policy

• Natural Resources

• Utilities and Transportation Commission

Clippings:

• Lawmakers from state want probe of Enron price rigging: They demand criminal investigation, voiding of long-term contracts SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Thursday, May 9, 2002 By CHARLES POPE "... One practice, called "Ricochet," allowed Enron to send power out of California and then resell it back into the state to avoid price caps that applied to transactions solely within California ..."

• BPA gets break in Senate energy bill: Conservation and production are stressed; dispute looms with House over Alaska refuge SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER, Friday, April 26, 2002; By CHARLES POPE. WASHINGTON -- Wheeling and dealing until the end, the Senate yesterday passed a broad energy bill filled with tax breaks and other incentives for producing and conserving oil and gas while keeping a vast slice of Alaska wilderness off limits to exploration.

• Dark days at City Light: Seattle utility was ill-prepared for a chaotic market; Seattle Times, March 10, 2002. By Lynda V. Mapes, Alwyn Scott and Jim Brunner Seattle Times staff reporters and electricity rates nearly 60 percent higher because their utility was not prepared for last year's energy crisis and slow to respond once it occurred. Seattle City Light customers are stuck with a mountain of new debt.
  Related stories:
  The story behind City Light's 'perfect storm' of 2001
  A power primer
  What happened in Snohomish County

• Judge criticizes NW utilities as she opposes their bid for refunds Seattle PI, Monday, October 22, 2001, By JANE HADLEY The sky-high electricity rates Northwest consumers are paying can be blamed on bad weather, but they're also the result of questionable decisions by Seattle City Light and Tacoma Power, a federal administrative judge has concluded.

• The energy crisis: ground zero Seattle Times, June 03, 2001 By Lynda V. Mapes This is ground zero in the West Coast energy crunch. Washington's concerns over salmon and increased electric rates - still among the cheapest in the country - seem pale by comparison to people worried about sewage backing up into streets when pumps won't run.
• High income, high power Seattle Times, March 18, 2001, The McCaw home headed a list of top residential energy users provided by Seattle City Light under the state's public-records act.

  Businesses gulp down the juice Seattle Times, March 18, 2001, by Ross Anderson

  Predictably, the leading commercial users are the skyscrapers that line Fifth Avenue. These two clusters of enterprise consume a major proportion of Seattle's power supply. City Light says 15 percent of its load goes to industry, 35 percent to commercial businesses and 50 percent to residential users.

  These are Seattle City Light's top 10 industrial power users (1999 usage): 1. Birmingham Steel - 328,162 megawatt hours* 2. Saint Gobain Containers (formerly Ball Foster Glass) - 143,787 mwh 3. Boeing Puget Sound Aircraft and Missiles - 99,177 mwh 4. Ash Grove Cement - 85,846 mwh 5. La Farge Corporation (cement) - 45,595 mwh 6. Boeing Commercial - 43,354 mwh 7. Fisher Flouring Mills - 27,199 mwh 8. Todd Pacific Shipyards - 25,879 mwh 9. James Hardie Gypsum - 23,344 mwh 10. Associated Grocers - 20,911 mwh

  Seattle City Light's top 10 commercial power users (1999 usage): 1. Bank of America Tower (formerly Columbia Center), Fifth Avenue and Cherry Street - 30,965 megawatt hours* 2. US Bank Center Building (City Centre), Fifth Avenue and Pike Street - 27,506 mwh 3. Key Tower, Fifth Avenue and Cherry Street - 24,029 mwh 4. Boeing Commercial, 1135 S. Webster St. - 23,430 mwh 5. Two Union Square, Sixth Avenue and Union Street - 22,451 mwh 6. Starbucks Center, First Avenue South and Utah Avenue South - 21,631 mwh 7. Sixth & Virginia, Sixth Avenue and Virginia Street - 20,842 mwh 8. Wells Fargo Center (formerly First Interstate Center), Third Avenue and Madison Street - 20,751 mwh 9. U S West Communications, Sixth Avenue and Pine Street - 19,618 mwh 10. Rainier Tower, Fifth Avenue and Union Street - 18,766 mwh

  *One megawatt hour equals 1,000 kilowatt hours

• Conservation's regeneration Seattle Times, January 21, 2001; By Lynda V. Mapes The Northwest Power Planning Council, a watchdog organization established after the nuclear-power-plant fiasco, estimates about 2,400 megawatts are available regionwide through conservation - enough to power two Seattles.
• Governors focus on power cost Seattle Times, December 21, 2000 By Seattle Times and Wire Reports

  DENVER - U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson yesterday extended an order requiring Western electricity producers to supply surplus power to California to alleviate its energy crisis. He also asked Western governors to support a regionwide cap on wholesale electricity prices and to work together to solve problems that have created power shortages and skyrocketing rates throughout the West. Some Puget Sound utilities will raise rates next month as much as 50 percent.

• Power situation topsy-turvy, and here's why Seattle Times, December 17, 2000 By Andrea Otanez Seattle Times assistant metro editor

  Cold, dry weather last weekend brought warnings of power shortages in the Northwest. This week the region is under federal orders to sell surplus wattage to California.

• Germany's new no-nuke policy ignites row with France [Friday January 15, 1999; 7:15 PM, AFP]
• Shifting energy politics dim once-mighty BPA ; Seattle Times, Sunday, Jan. 4, 1998 by Ross Anderson In his upcoming budget proposal, President Clinton is expected to formally propose selling the BPA - whether it be to a private buyer or a consortium of Northwest governments. That idea has been floated before, but the prospect becomes more serious as Congress confronts tax subsidies and other issues that arise from government efforts to dereg- ulate energy.
• Do endangered salmon equal endangered dams? Seattle Times, Sunday, April 20, 1997 by Jim Simon Seattle Times staff reporter

Literature:

Bibliography on Risk Assessment (and GIS Tools) (The University of East Anglia)

BOYLE, GODFREY, ed., Renewable Energy. Oxford University Press, 1996,

ADVANCES IN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT : TRIBUTES TO W.R. DERRICK SEWELL / EDITED BY HAROLD D. FOSTER. London : Belhaven Press ; Boca Raton, Fla. : Distributed in North America by CRC Press, 1993. viii, 366 p. : ill., maps. [HC79.E5 A33 1993].

Ernst R. Berndt and David O. Wood, "Technology, Prices, and the Derived Demand for Energy," Review of Economics and Statistics 57, 3 (August 1975), 259-268.

Butts, Kent Hughes. The Strategic Importance of Water (1997)

Frank Giarratani and Charles F. Socher, "The Pattern of Industrial Location and Rising Energy Prices," Atlantic Economic Journal 5, 1 (March 1977), 48-55.

CHAPMAN K., CONTINUITY AND CONTINGENCY IN THE SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRIES - THE CASE OF PETROCHEMICALS, TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS 17: (1) 47-64 1992

Lamb, Russell L. and Wilkerson, Chad R. Can U.S. Oil Production Survive the 20th Century? Economic Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City), 1999, First Quarter.

William H. Miernyk, Frank Giarratani, and Charles Socher, Regional Impacts of Rising Energy Prices (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1978), pp. 57-76.

Pinder, David and Bridget Simmonds, "Oil Transport: Pipelines, Ports and the New Political Climate," in: Transport and Economic Development in the New Central and Eastern Europe. Hall, D., ed., Belhaven, 1993 [HE242.9 T73]

Noboru Sakashita, "The Location Theory of Firm Revisited: Impacts of Rising Energy Prices," Regional Science and Urban Economics, 10, 3 (August 1980), 423-428.

Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development. "The Next Generation of Energy: The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Industries in Washington State", 1998.

Yergin, Daniel. The prize : the epic quest for oil, money, and power / New York : Simon and Schuster, 1991. Business Admin General Stacks [HD9560.6 .Y47 1991]

Texts:

"The War for America' Natural Resources" William R. Nester, 1997.

• Chapter 3: Mines, Drills, and Energy
• Chapter 5: Natural Resource Policy into the Twenty-first Century