University of California Energy Institute

Energy Research Organizations
and Information Sources
(by subject)

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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
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.
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 :
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

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

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
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