University of California Energy Institute

Energy Research Organizations
and Information Sources
(by organization)

Information referenced is in English unless otherwise noted.

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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

Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok) Regional Energy Resources Information Center
Arizona State U. Combustion Laboratory
Auburn U. Plasma Physics
Boston U. Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
Brunel U.: Combustion Engine Research Group; Brunel Institute of Power Systems
California State Polythechnic U., Pomona Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
Carnegie Mellon U.: Center for Energy and Environmental Studies; Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Colorado School of Mines: Petroleum Engineering
Colorado State U. Solar Energy Application Laboratory
Columbia U. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Cornell U.: Laboratory of Plasma Studies; Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Delft U. of Technology: Department of Applied Earth Sciences; TNO Institutes
DeMonfort U. Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
Drexel U. Center for Electric Power Engineering
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory
Geochemisches Institut Göttingen
Hacettepe U. Beytepe Kampusu, Ankara Nuclear Engineering Department
Harvard U. Harvard Electricity Policy Group
Illinois Institute of Technology: Electric Power and Power Electronics Center; Energy/Environment/Economics Program; Grainger Power Lab
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine/Earth Sci., and Eng., Applications Modeling & Computation Group
Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), Center 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. Department of Petroleum Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Building Technology Program; Environmental Technology and Public Policy Program; Department of Nuclear Engineering; Earth Resources Laboratory; Laboratory for Energy and the Environment; Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
North Carolina State U.: Electric Power Research Center; Department of Nuclear Engineering
Norwegian Institute of Technology Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF): SINTEF Energy Research; SINTEF Petroleum Research
Ohio State U. Nuclear Engineering Program
Oregon State U. Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics
Pace U. School of Law Pace Energy Project
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. Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
Purdue U. School of Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department; Lighting Research Center; Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
San Diego State U.: Center for Energy Studies; Industrial Assessment Center
Stanford U.: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Building Energy Laboratory; Energy Modeling Forum; Geothermal Program; Management Science and Engineering; Petroleum Engineering Department
State U. Campinas Department of Energy
Technical U. of Denmark Department of Electric Power 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 Science
U. Calgary Department of Geology and Geophysics
U. California: Energy Institute; Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society; Transportation Center
U. California at Berkeley: 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 Group; Plasma Theory and Simulation Group; Institute of Transportation Studies
U. California at Davis: California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research; National Institute for Global Environmental Change; Institute of Transportation Studies; Center for Urban Forest Research; California Wind Energy Consortium
U. California at Irvine: Advanced Power and Energy Program; Fusion Energy and Pulsed Power Research (Department of Physics and Astronomy); Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Power Electronics Laboratory; Institute of Transportation Studies
U. California at Los Angeles: Department of Atmospheric Sciences; Energy Design Tools (Department of Architecture and Urban Design); Center for Environmental Risk Reduction; Fusion Science and Technology Center; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Plasma Science and Technology Institute
U. California at Riverside Center for Environmental Research and Technology
U. California at San Diego: Center for Energy Research; Scripps Institution of Oceanography
U. California at Santa Barbara Institute for Crustal Studies
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 Hybrid Vehicle National Data Center
U. Illinois at Chicago: Energy Resources Center; Thermodynamics Research Laboratory
U. Karlsruhe Electrotechnology Institute (in German)
U. Malta Institute for Energy Technology
U. Maryland: Center for Environmental Energy Engineering; Joing Global Change Research Institute; Materials and Nuclear Engineering Department
U. Michigan: Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences; Transportation Research Institute
U. Minnesota Center for Sustainable Building Research
U. Missouri at Columbia Department of Nuclear Engineering
U. Missouri at Rolla: Department of Nuclear Engineering; Power Engineering Program
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: Key Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering; National Solar Architecture Research Unit
U. North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
U. Oklahoma: Sarkeys Energy Center; School of Geology and Geophysics
U. Oldenburg Department of Energy and Semiconductor Research
U. Quebec Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Énergie et Matériaux
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 and Radiological 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 Coal and Minerals Processing; 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
William and Mary U. Plasma and Nonlinear Physics Program

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: Energy Systems Division; Energy Technology Division; International Nuclear Safety Center; Reactor Analysis and Engineering Division; Technology Development Division; Transportation Technology R&D Center
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Energy Sciences and Technology
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory: Nuclear and Energy Systems Division
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Accelerator and Fusion Research Division; Earth Sciences Division; Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Energy and Environment Directorate; National Ignition Facility
Los Alamos National Laboratory: Energy and Sustainable Systems Program; Fusion Energy Sciences Program
National Energy Technology Laboratory
National Petroleum Technology Office
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Alternative Fuels Data Center; National Wind Technology Center; Renewable Electric Plant Information System; 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 Science and Technology Directorate
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories: Energy and Critical Infrastructure Program
Savannah River Technology Center

Other Federal Energy Research Institutions

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

State Energy Research Organizations

Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions
California Energy Commission
California Public Utilities Commission
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: Renewable Energy; Petroleum; Clean Power from Lignite; Coal in Sustainable Development; Greenhouse Accounting
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
Building Research Establishment (UK) Foundation for the Built Environment
European Fusion Development Agreement: Joint European Tokamak
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Energy Agency: Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre; Centers for the Analysis and Demonstration of Energy Technologies (CADDET); Clean Coal Center; Energy Efficiency Policy Analysis Division; Energy and Environment Division; Energy Technology Data Exchange; Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme; Heat Pump Centre; International Centre for Gas Technology Information; Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme; Solar Heating and Cooling Programme; Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Program
Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Naka Fusion Research Center
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
Nuclear Energy Agency
Risø National Laboratory: United Nations Environment Programme Collaborating Centre on Energy and the Environment
State Research Center of Russian Federation: Institute of Physics and Power Engineering; Research Institute of Atomic Reactors
Swedish Energy Agency
Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT Process

Private Sector Energy Organizations

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
American Hydrogen Association
American Solar Energy Society
BC Research Inc. Centre for Alternative Transportation Fuels
Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Convergence Research
EcoIQ.com
Electric Power Research Institute
Energy Center of Wisconsin
Energy Central Electric Power Information Resource
Energy and Mineral Law Foundation
Fusion Power Associates
Gas Research Institute
General Atomics Fusion Group
Houston Advanced Research Center: Applied Research and Engineering Center; Center for Fuel Cell Research and Applications; Geotechnology Research Institute; Mitchell Center for Sustainable Development
Institute of Gas Technology
International Geothermal Association
International Solar Energy Society
Nuclear Energy Institute
Norwegian Computing Center Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data
www.oilsurvey.com (oil and gas information center)
Renewable Energy Policy Project and CREST
Resources for the Future
Rocky Mountain Institute
Stockholm Environment Institute
Tellus Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
World Nuclear Association

Lists of Energy Research Organizations and Information Sources

Alternative Fuels Data Center (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Bioenergy Information Network
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (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)
Directory of Energy-Related Graduate Programs in U.S. Universities (The Energy Foundation/CREST)
Fusion Research Laboratories (USDOE Office of Fusion Energy; click on "Fusion Connections")
Fusion Sites (MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
GEM database (sustainable energy information; Renewable Energy Policy Project
National Wind Technology Center (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
On-line Earth System Science Education Resources (U. Pennsylvania)
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Reading Room (U. Texas Department of Petroleum Engineering)
Petroleum Internet Links (Schlumberger)
Plasma science and technology related sites (U. Maryland)
Power Engineering Organizations (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Renewable Electric Plant Information System (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Renewable Resource Data Center (Biomass, Geothermal, Solar, Wind; National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Solar energy and buildings Internet sites (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Solar links (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems)
Transportation links (U. Texas Center for Transportation Research, click on "Links")
Transportation Sites (University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute)
The The Utility Connection Top Utility Links to Sites on the Internet
World Energy Efficiency Association: Energy and Environment Resources on the Web; International Directories of Energy Efficiency Institutions and Energy Service Companies
Yahoo Science:Energy

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