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Energy Research Organizations
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 Energy Research Organizations and Information Sources (by organization)

Links to lists of organizations and sources are shown in larger type. Information referenced is in English unless otherwise noted.

Contents

Comprehensive Energy Research Institutions and Information Sources
Fossil fuels
Fossil fuels: Petroleum
Fossil fuels: Natural Gas
Fossil fuels: Coal
Fossil fuels: Geology, Geochemistry, Geophysics
Fossil fuels: Conversion (including hydrogen from all sources)
Nuclear Energy
Nuclear Energy: Fission
Nuclear Energy: Fusion
Renewable Energy Sources (including Geothermal)
Renewable Energy Sources: Photovoltaics
Renewable Energy Sources: Solar Thermal
Renewable Energy Sources: Hydropower
Renewable Energy Sources: Biomass
Renewable Energy Sources: Wind
Geothermal Energy
Combustion
Electricity
Energy Use
Energy Use: Buildings (including passive solar)
Energy Use: Industry
Energy Use: Transportation
Energy and the Environment
Energy Policy

Comprehensive Energy Research Institutions and Information Sources

Ames Laboratory
AOL NetFind: Energy WWW Index
Argonne National Laboratory
Energy Systems Division
Energy Technology Division
Technology Development Division
Arizona State U. Center for Energy Systems Research
Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok) Regional Energy Resources Information Center
Association of State Energy Research and Technology Transfer Institutions
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Department of Applied Science
California Energy Com mission
California State Polytechnic U., Pomona Center for Regenerative Studies
Carnegie Mellon U. Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
DeMontfort U. (U.K.) Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development
Energy Central
EcoIQ.com
The Energy Foundation/CREST Directory of Energy-Related Graduate Programs in U.S. Universities
Global Enviromental Options
Links Page
Gridwise Power Guide
Houston Advanced Research Center
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory
Illinois Institute of Technology Energy Technology Program
International Energy Agency Energy Technology Data Exchange
Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and the Environment
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Energy and Environment Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Energy Directorate
Lehigh U. Energy Research Center
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Louisiana State U. Department of Petroleum Engineering EnergyRelated WWW Sites
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Laboratory
Midwest Universities Energy Consortium
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Alternative Fuels Data Center
National Science Foundation
Netherlands Agency for Energy and the Environment (in Dutch)
English home page
Netherlands Energy Research Foundation
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Energy Division
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Princeton U. Center for Energy & Environmental Studies
Risø National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratories
Energy and Environment Sector
San Diego State U.
Center for Energy Studies
Energy Engineering Institute
State U. Campinas Department of Energy
Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development
Syracuse U. Institute for Energy Research
Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT Energy
Texas A&M Center for Energy and Mineral Resources
Texas State Energy Conservation Office
THERMIE (European Commission Directorate General XVII for Energy)
U.S. Department of Energy
Energy Information Administration
Office of Energy Research :
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
U. California Energy Institute
U. California at Berkeley Energy and Resources Group
U. Illinois at Chicago
Energy Resources Center
Thermodynamics Research Laboratory
U. Malta Institute for Energy Technology
U. North Dakota Energy and Environmental Research Center
U. Oklahoma Sarkeys Energy Center
U. Texas at Austin Center for Energy Studies
U. West Virginia National Research Center for Coal and Energy
U. Wyoming Institute for Energy Research
The Utility Connection
World Energy Efficiency Association
Internet Energy and Environment Sampler
International Directory of Energy Efficiency Institutions
Yahoo Science: Energy WWW Index

Fossil Fuels

Colorado School of Mines
Houston Advanced Research Center
Geotechnology Research Institute
Technology Development Laboratory
Department of Natural Resources, Canada, Energy Sector
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Fossil Energy
Morgantown Energy Technology Center
Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center

Fossil Fuels: Petroleum

Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Centre
Chevron Research and Technology Company
Colorado School of Mines
Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining
Petroleum Engineering
Curtin U. Petroleum Geophysics and Geochemistry Groups
Delft U. of Technology Department of Applied Earth Sciences
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Reservoir Modelling Group
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Earth Sciences Division
Louisiana State U. Department of Petroleum Engineering
Well Data
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
Petroleum Recovery Research Center
Norwegian Computing Center Statistical Analysis of Natural Resource Data
Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute (in Norwegian)
www.oilsurvey.com (oil and gas information center)
Petroleum Science and Technology Institute Petroleum TEchnology Research Information System
Schlumberger sci.geo.petroleum Internet Resources
Stanford U.
Petroleum Engineering Department
Petroleum Science and Technology Institute
Texas A&M Department of Petroleum Engineering
U. Aberdeen Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology
U. Adelaide National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics
U. California at Berkeley Petroleum Engineering Group
U. Michigan Comprehensive Oil and Gas Information System (USDOE/EIA data)
U. New South Wales Centre for Petroleum Engineering
U. Southern California Department of Petroleum Engineering
U. Texas at Austin
Bureau of Economic Geology
Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Sources

Fossil Fuels: Natural Gas

Gas Research Institute
Institute of Gas Technology
International Energy Agency International Centre for Gas Technology Information
U. Oklahoma Institute for Gas Utilization and Processing Technologies

Fossil Fuels: Coal

Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) Energy Technology Laboratory (LSDE) (Tangerang, Indonesia)
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Mining Technology and Equipment
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Black Coal Utilization
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for New Technologies for Power Generation from Low-Rank Coal
International Energy AgencyCoal Research
Iowa State U. Center for Coal and the Environment

Fossil Fuels: Geology, Geochemistry, and Geophysics

Columbian U. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Delft U. of Technology TNO Institute of Applied Geoscience
Geochemisches Institut Göttingen
Helsinki U. of Technology Laboratory of Engineering Geology and Geophysics
Lund U. of Technology Department of Geotechnology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Earth Resources Laboratory
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Geophysical Data Center
Geosciences Laboratory
Pennsylvania State U.
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
On-line Earth System Science Education Resources
U.S. Geological Survey
U. Alberta Department of Geology
U. Calgary Department of Geology and Geophysics
U. California Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
U. California at Santa Barbara Institute for Crustal Studies
U. Oklahoma School of Geology and Geophysics
U. South Carolina Earth Sciences and Resources Institute
U. Utah Earth Sciences and Resources Institute

Fossil Fuels: Conversion (including hydrogen from all sources)

American Hydrogen Association
Northwestern U. Cent er for Catalysis and Surface Studies
U. Southern California Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute

Nuclear Energy

Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute Naka Fusion Research Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Nuclear Engineering
North Carolina State U. Department of Nuclear Engineering
Purdue U. School of Nuclear Engineering
Texas A&M Department of Nuclear Engineering
U. California at Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering
U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Nuclear Engineering
U. Tennessee Nuclear Engineering Department
U. Tokyo Nuclear Engineering Research Laboratory
U. Wisconsin Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics

Nuclear Energy: Fission

Argonne National Laboratory Reactor Analysis Division
Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
Hacettepe U. Beytepe Kampusu, Ankara Nuclear Engineering Department
International Atomic Energy Agency
Kansas State U. Department of Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear Energy Agency
Nuclear Energy Institute
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
"Nuke" Nuclear Information WWW Server
Ohio State U. Nuclear Engineering Program
Oregon State U. Department of Nuclear Engineering
Pennsylvania State U. Nuclear Engineering Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Nuclear Engineering Program
State Research Center of Russian Federation
Institute of Physics and Power Engineering
Research Institute of Atomic Reactors
The Uranium Institute
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
Office of Nuclear Energy, Engineering and Technology
U. California at Berkeley
Center for Nuclear and Toxic Waste Management
Department of Nuclear Engineering
Todd's Atomic Home page
U. Cincinnati Nuclear Science and Engineering Program
U. Florida Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences
U. Maryland Materials and Nuclear Engineering Department
U. Michigan Department of Nuclear Engineering
U. Missouri at Columbia Department of Nuclear Engineering
U. Missouri at RollaDepartment of Nuclear Engineering
U. New Mexico Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department
U. Virginia Department of Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear Energy: Fusion

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Institute of Plasma Physics
Auburn U. Plasma Physics
Cornell U. Laboratory of Plasma Studies
Fusion Power Associates
General Atomics Fusion Group
Joint European Tokamak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Plasma Fusion Center
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy
Fusion Research Laboratories
E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Accelerator and Fusion Research Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory National Ignition Facility
Los Alamos National Laboratory Plasma Physics Group
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
U. California at Berkeley Plasma Theory and Simulation Group
U. California at Los Angeles Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research
U. California at San Diego Fusion Energy Research Program
U. Maryland Plasma Science and Technology
U. Quebec Intitut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Énergie et Matériaux
U. Texas at Austin Fusion Research Center
U. Wisconsin Programs in Plasmas and Fusion Technology
Weizmann Institute of Science Plasma Laboratory
William and Mary U. Plasma and Nonlinear Physics Program

Renewable Energy Sources

American Solar Energy Society
Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Renewable Energy
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology Virtual Energy Library
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems Solar energy and renewable energy related servers
Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), Center for Energy Studies
International Solar Energy Society
National Energy Authority, Iceland
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Renewable Resource Data Center (biomass, geothermal, solar, wind)
Solar Radiation Resource Information
Technical U. of Munich Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research (in German)
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
Energy Information Resources
U. Alabama at Huntsville Alabama Solar Center
U. Arizona Solar and Energy Research Facility
U. Centeral Florida Florida Solar Energy Center
U. Oldenburg Renewable Energy Group
U. Strathclyde Energy Systems Research Unit

Renewable Energy Sources: Photovoltaics

Burgdorf Engineering School Laboratory for Photovoltaics
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory
Solar energy and buildings Internet sites
International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme
U. Delaware Institute of Energy Conversion
U. Quebec Intitut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Énergie et Matériaux
U. New South Wales Centre for Photovoltaic Devices and Systems
U. Wisconsin Solar Energy Laboratory

Renewable Energy Sources: Solar Thermal

San Diego State U. About Solar Energy
Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems Program

Renewable Energy Sources: Hydropower

Norwegian Hydrotechnology Laboratory (in Norwegian)

Renewable Energy Sources: Biomass

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Biofuels Information Network
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Biomass Resource Information
U. California at Davis California Institute of Food and Agricultural Research

Renewable Energy Sources: Wind

Cranfield U. Wind Turbine Research Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
National Wind Technology Center
Wind Energy Resource Information
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Energy Research Unit
University of California at Davis Wind Turbine Research Group (with the U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate, NASA Ames Res. Ctr., Sandia Natl. Labs., and the DOE Natl. Renewable Energy Lab.)

Geothermal Energy

E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Earth Sciences Division
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Geothermal Resources Information
International Geothermal Association
Stanford U. Geothermal Program
U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Department of Commerce)

Electricity

Brunel U. Institute of Power Systems
Cornell U. Power Systems Engineering Research Center
Drexel U. Center for Electric Power Engineering
Electric Power Research Institute
Electric Power Related Information Sources
Houston Advanced Research Center Technology Development Laboratory
Illinois Institute of Technology Electric Power Engineering Program
Power Engineering Organizations
North Carolina State U. Electric Power Research Center
Northeastern U. Power Engineering Group
Norwegian Electric Power Research Institute
Politehnica U. of Bucharest School of Power Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile Electric Power Systems
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Electric Power Engineering Department
Technical U. of Denmark Department of Electric Power Engineering
U. California at Irvine Power Electronics Laboratory
U. Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil) Laboratório de Planejamento de Sistemas de Energia Elétrica (in Portuguese)
U. Karlsruhe Electrotechnology Institute
U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Power and Energy Systems Area
U. Missouri at Rolla Power Engineering Program
U. Wisconsin Wisconsin Electric Machines & Power Electronics Consortium

Combustion

Arizona State U. Combustion Laboratory
Brunel U. Combustion Engine Research Group
Delft U. of Technology Department of Process and Energy Technology
U. California at Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering
Combustion Analysis/Diagnostics/Dynamics Lab
Combustion Byproducts Laboratory
Combustion Process Lab
U. California at Irvine
Center for Combustion and Propulsion Science and Technology
Pacific Rim Consortium in Energy, Combustion, and the Environment
University of California at Los Angeles Center for Clean Technology
U. California at San Diego Center for Energy Research

Energy Use

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
Energy Efficiency-Related Web Sites
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology Virtual Energy Library
Energy Center of Wisconsin
Energy Crossroads (E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Center for Building Science)
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (in English and German)
Solar energy and renewable energy related servers
National Energy Authority, Iceland
Oak Ridge National Laboratory IEA Center for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies
Rocky Mountain Institute
Texas A&M Energy Systems Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
U. California California Institute for Energy Efficiency
U. Colorado Joint Center for Energy Management
U. of Strathclyde Energy Systems Research Unit
U. Stuttgart Institute for Thermodynamics und Heating Technology

Energy Use: Buildings (including passive solar)

Building Research Establishment (UK) Foundation for the Built Environment
Colorado State U. Solar Energy Application Laboratory
Delft U. of Technology Department of Process and Energy Technology
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory
Solar energy and buildings Internet sites
Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics (in German)
Solar energy and renewable energy related servers
International Energy Agency
Air Infiltration and Ventilation Centre
Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme
Heat Pump Centre
Solar Heating and Cooling Programme
National Research Council of Canada Institute for Research in Construction
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Center for Building Science
Luleå U. Division of Energy Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building Technology Program
Norwegian Institute of Technology Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (in Norwegian)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lighting Research Center
Stanford U. Building Energy Laboratory
Technical U. of Nova Scotia Canadian Residential End-use Data and Analysis Center
Texas A&M Energy Systems Laboratory
University College Dublin Energy Research Group
U. Arizona Solar and Energy Research Facility
U. California Center for the Built Environment
U. California at Berkeley Center for Environmental Design Research
U. California at Los Angeles Energy Design Tools (Department of Architecture and Urban Design)
U. Colorado Joint Center for Energy Management
U. Minnesota Building Research Center
U. Nebraska at Lincoln Center for Infrastructure Research
U. New South Wales National Solar Architecture Research Unit
U. Strathclyde Energy Systems Research Unit
U. Stuttgart Institute for Thermodynamics und Heating Technology

Energy Use: Industry

San Diego State U. Industrial Assessment Center
U. Florida Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Center
North Carolina State U. Industrial Electrotechnology Laboratory
Norwegian Institute of Technology Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research
Fluid machinery (in Norwegian)

Energy Use: Transportation

BC Research Inc. Centre for Alternative Transportation Fuels
Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Kansas State U. Transportation Research Center
U. California at Berkeley
Institute of Transportation Studies
Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways
Transportation Center
U. California at Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
U. California at Irvine Institute of Transportation Studies
U. California at Riverside Center for Environmental Research and Technology
U. Hawaii Electric Hybrid Vehicle National Data Center
U. Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Transportation Sites
U. Texas Center for Transportation Research
Transportation Links (click on Links)
Victoria Transport Policy Institute

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Energy and the Environment

Argonne National Laboratory Environmental Research Division
Baylor U. Institute of Environmental Studies and Glasscock Energy Research Center
Boston U. Center for Energy and Environmental Studies
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
International Consortium for Research on Energy Management and Technology
International Energy Agency
Greenhouse Gas R&D Information Centre
Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange
Kansas State U. Institute for Environmental Research
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC) (U. California at Davis)
Great Plains Regional Center (U. Nebraska)
Midwest Regional Center (Indiana U.)
Northeast Regional Center (Harvard U.)
South Centera Regional Center (Tulane U.)
Southeast Regional Center (U. Alabama)
Western Regional Center (U. California at Davis)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
Pace U. School of Law Pace Energy Project
Resources for the Future
Stockholm Environment Institute
Boston Center
Tallinn Center
Tellus Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies
United Nations Environment Programme Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Health and Environmental Research
U.S. Global Change Research Program
U. California at Los Angeles
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Consortium for Global Change and Regional Impacts
Center for Clean Technology
Center for Environmental Risk Reduction
U. California at San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography
U. Maryland
Center for Environmental Energy Engineering
Center for Global Change
U. Tennessee Energy, Environment, and Resources Center
Virginia Insititute of Technology Center for Energy and The Global Environment

Energy Policy

California Public Utilities Commission
Carnegie Mellon U. Department of Engineering and Public Policy
Convergence Research
Energy and Mineral Law Foundation
Harvard U. Harvard Electricity Policy Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Public Online Group Electric Industry Restructuring OnLine
Stanford U. Energy Modeling Forum
U. California Program on Workable Energy Regulation
U. Cologne Energy Economics Institut (in German)
U. Delaware Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
U. Pennsylvania Center for Energy and the Environment
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