University of California Energy Institute

Energy Research Organizations
and Information Sources
(by organization)

Information referenced is in English unless otherwise noted.

Contents

Academic Energy Institutes, Centers, Laboratories, Programs, and Departments

U.S. Department of Energy and DOE Laboratories

Other Federal Energy Research Institutions

State Energy Research Organizations

International Government, Government-Academic, and Government-Private Energy Organizations

Private Sector Energy Research Organizations

Lists of Energy Research Organizations and Information Sources

Academic Energy Institutes, Centers, Laboratories, Programs, and Departments

Auburn U. Fusion Lab
Boston U. Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
Brunel U.: Center for Advanced Power Train and Fuels Research; Brunel Institute of Power Systems
California State Polythechnic U., Pomona Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
Carnegie Mellon U.: Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Colorado School of Mines: Petroleum Engineering Department
Colorado State U. Solar Energy Application Laboratory
Columbia U.: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Cornell U.: Laboratory of Plasma Studies; Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Delft U. of Technology Department of Geotechnology
DeMonfort U. Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
Drexel U. Center of Electric Power Engineering
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory
Geowissenshaftliches Zentrum Göttingen Geochemie
Hacettepe U. Beytepe Kampusu, Ankara Nuclear Engineering Department
Harvard U.: Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group; Harvard Electricity Policy Group
Illinois Institute of Technology: Electric Power and Power Electronics Center; Grainger Power Lab
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine/Earth Sci., and Eng., Applied Modeling & Computation Group
Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), Centre for Energy Studies
Indiana U. National Institute for Global Environmental Change Midwest Regional Center
Iowa State U. Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies
Kansas State U.: Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering; Institute for Environmental Research
Lehigh U. Energy Research Center
Luleå U. Division of Energy Engineering
Louisiana State U. Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Building Technology Program; Environmental Technology and Public Policy Program; Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Earth Resources Laboratory; Laboratory for Energy and the Environment; Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
Missouri U. of Science and Technology: Department of Nuclear Engineering; Ameren Power Electronics Laboratory
North Carolina State U. Department of Nuclear Engineering
Norwegian Institute of Technology Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF): SINTEF Petroleum Research; SINTEF Petroleum and Energy
Ohio State U. Nuclear Engineering Program
Oregon State U. Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics
Pace U. School of Law Pace Energy and Climate Center
Pennsylvania State U.: College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Politehnica U. of Bucharest Faculty of Power Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile Electric Power Systems
Princeton U. Energy Group, Princeton Environmental Institute
Purdue U.: The Energy Center at Discovery Park; School of Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering; Lighting Research Center; Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
San Diego State U.: Center for Energy Studies; Industrial Assessment Center
Stanford U.: Energy Modeling Forum; Department of Energy Resources Engineering; Geothermal Program; Global Climate and Energy Project; Management Science and Engineering; Precourt Energy Efficiency Center
State U. Campinas Department of Energy
Technical U. of Denmark Department of Electrical Engineering
Technical U. of Munich Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research
Technical U. of Nova Scotia Canadian Residential End-use Data and Analysis Center
Texas A&M;: Department of Nuclear Engineering; Energy Systems Laboratory; Department of Petroleum Engineering
Tulane U. National Institute for Global Environmental Change South Central Regional Center
University College Dublin Energy Research Group
U. Aberdeen Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology
U. Alberta Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
U. Calgary Department of Geoscience
U. California: Energy Institute; Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society; UC Transportation Center
U. California at Berkeley: California Institute for Energy and Environment; Energy Biosciences Institute; Energy and Resources Group; Center for Environmental Design Research; Department of Mechanical Engineering; Department of Nuclear Engineering; Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways; Petroleum Engineering Program; Plasma Theory and Simulation Group; Institute of Transportation Studies
U. California at Davis: California Biomass Collaborative; California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research; Energy Efficiency Center; Institute of Transportation Studies; Center for Urban Forest Research; California Wind Energy Collaborative
U. California at Irvine: Advanced Power and Energy Program; UCI Fusion Energy and Pulsed Power Research; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Power Electronics Laboratory; Institute of Transportation Studies
U. California at Los Angeles: Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Energy Design Tools (Department of Architecture and Urban Design); Fusion Science and Technology Center; Hydrogen Engineering Research Consortium; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Plasma Science and Technology Institute
U. California at Riverside: California Energy Network Project; Center for Environmental Research and Technology; Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
U. California at San Diego: Center for Energy Research; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
U. California at Santa Barbara: Institute for Crustal Studies; Institute for Energy Efficiency; Solid State Lighting and Display Center; Solid State Lighting and Energy Center
U. California at Santa Cruz: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
U. Centeral Florida Florida Solar Energy Center
U. Cincinnati Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program
U. Cologne Institute of Energy Economics
U. Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil) Electrical Systems Planning Research Laboratory
U. Florida Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
U. Hawaii Electric and Hybrid Vehicle National Data Center
U. Hong Kong Department of Architecture (building energy efficiency and photovoltaics research)
U. Illinois at Chicago: Energy Resources Center; Thermodynamics Research Laboratory
U. Illinois at Urbana-Champagne: Energy Biosciences Institute; International Center for Energy and Economic Development; Center for Plasma Material Interactions
U. Karlsruhe Electrotechnology Institute (in German)
U. Malta Institute for Energy Technology
U. Maryland: Center for Environmental Energy Engineering; Joint Global Change Research Institute; Graduate Program in Nuclear Engineering
U. Michigan: Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences; Transportation Research Institute
U. Minnesota Center for Sustainable Building Research
U. Missouri at Columbia Nuclear Science and Engineering Institute
U. Nebraska at Lincoln National Institute for Global Environmental Change Great Plains Regional Center
U. New Mexico Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
U. New South Wales: School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
U. North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
U. Oklahoma: Sarkeys Energy Center; School of Geology and Geophysics
U. Oldenburg Energy and Semiconductor Research Laboratory
U. Quebec Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Énergie, Matériaux, et Télécommunications
U. South Carolina Earth Sciences and Resources Institute
U. Strathclyde: Institute for Energy and the Environment; Energy Systems Research Unit
U. Stuttgart Institute for Thermodynamics and Heating Technology (in German)
U. Tennessee: Energy, Environment, and Resources Center; Department of Nuclear Engineering
U. Texas at Austin: Bureau of Economic Geology; Center for Energy and Environmental Resources; Fusion Research Center; Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering; Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering; Center for Transportation Research
U. Tokyo Nuclear Engineering Research Laboratory
U. Utah Energy and Geoscience Institute
U. West Virginia National Research Center for Coal and Energy
U. Wisconsin: Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics; Wisconsin Electric Machines & Power Electronics Consortium; Research Programs in Plasmas and Fusion Technology; Solar Energy Laboratory
Virginia Insititute of Technology: Center for Advanced Separation Technologies; Center for Energy and The Global Environment; Center for Power Electronics Systems; Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research
Weizmann Institute of Science Plasma Laboratory

U.S. Department of Energy and DOE Laboratories

U.S. Department of Energy

Some DOE Offices:: Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management; Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Energy Information Administration; Office of Science:; Office of Fossil Energy; Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology
Some DOE Laboratories and Technology Centers:
Ames Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory: Decision and Information Sciences Division; Energy Systems Division; International Nuclear Safety Center; Nuclear Engineering Division; Transportation Technology R&D Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Energy Sciences and Technology Department
Idaho National Laboratory: Science and Technology Directorate; Nuclear Energy; Center for Advanced Energy Studies
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Accelerator and Fusion Research Division; Earth Sciences Division; Energy Biosciences Institute; Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Energy and Environment Directorate; Fusion Energy Program; National Ignition Facility
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Science Programs; Fusion Energy Sciences Program
National Energy Technology Laboratory: Carbon Sequestration; Coal and Power Systems; Hydrogen and Clean Fuels; Oil and Natural Gas Supply
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: National Wind Technology Center; Renewable Resource Data Center (Biomass, Geothermal, Solar, Wind)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Engineering Science and Technology Division; Fusion Energy Division; Nuclear Science and Technology Division; Environmental Sciences Division
Pacific Northwest Laboratory: Energy and Environment Directorate
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories: Energy, Resources and Nonproliferation Program
Savannah River Site: Savannah River National Laboratory

Other U.S. Federal Energy Research Institutions

National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: National Geophysical Data Center
National Science Foundation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Department of Commerce)
U.S. Global Change Research Program
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. State Energy Research Organizations

Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions
California Energy Commission
California Public Utilities Commission
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
State Energy Offices (National Association of State Energy Officials)
Texas State Energy Conservation Office

International Government, Government-Academic, and Government-Private Energy Organizations

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Plasma Physics
Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) Energy Technology Laboratory (LSDE) (Tangerang, Indonesia)
Australian Cooperative Research Centres: Clean Power (renewables); Coal in Sustainable Development; Greenhouse Gas Technologies; Mining; Research Institute for Sustainable Energy
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
Building Research Establishment (UK) Foundation for the Built Environment
European Fusion Development Agreement: Joint European Torus
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
ITER
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Energy Agency: Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre; Centers for the Analysis and Demonstration of Energy Technologies (CADDET): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Clean Coal Centre; Energy Information Centre; Energy Technology Data Exchange; Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme; Heat Pump Centre; Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme; Solar Heating and Cooling Programme; Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Program
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA)
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Naka Fusion Institute
National Energy Authority, Iceland
National Research Council of Canada Institute for Research in Construction
Department of Natural Resources, Canada Energy Sector
Netherlands Agency for Energy and the Environment (NOVEM): English home page
Netherlands Energy Research Centre (ECN)
Nuclear Energy Agency
Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy: United Nations Environment Programme Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development (URC)
State Research Center of Russian Federation: Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (in Russian); Research Institute of Atomic Reactors
Swedish Energy Agency
Technical Research Centre of Finland Energy

Private Sector Energy Organizations

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
American Hydrogen Association
American Solar Energy Society
Convergence Research
EcoIQ Magazine
Electric Power Research Institute
Energy Center of Wisconsin
Energy Central Network Electric Power Information Resource
Energy and Mineral Law Foundation
Fusion Power Associates
General Atomics Fusion Education
Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC): Air Quality and Climate; Clean Energy; Human & Natural Systems
Gas Technology Institute
International Geothermal Association
International Solar Energy Society
Nuclear Energy Institute
Norwegian Computing Center Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data
Renewable Energy Policy Project and CREST
Resources for the Future
Rocky Mountain Institute
Stockholm Environment Institute
Tellus Institute for a Great Transition
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
World Nuclear Association

Lists of Energy Research Organizations and Information Sources

Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (U.S. Department of Energy)
Bioenergy Feedstock Information Network (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Building Energy Efficiency Links (U. Hong Kong Department of Architecture)
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (U.S. Department of Transportation)
Energy Crossroads (E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division)
Energy Efficiency-Related Web Sites (American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy)
Fusion and Plasma Sites (LLNL FusEdWeb)
Fusion Facilities and Personnel Directory (University of California at San Diego, Advanced Energy Technology Group)
DOE and Fusion Links (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Fusion Sites (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Fusion Sites (UCSD Fusion Energy Research Program)
National Wind Technology Center (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Virtual Library (U. Texas Department of Petroleum Engineering)
Electric Power Related Sites (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Renewable Resource Data Center (Biomass, Geothermal, Solar, Wind; National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Transportation links (U. Texas Center for Transportation Research)
The Utility Connection Top Utility Links to Sites on the Internet
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