Chapter 18 Energy Resources

US Energy Information Administration home page:
A huge site containing masses of information on every aspect of energy use in the USA, plus an extensive international and statistical database. Search for information on each fuel type, by US state, or by country.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/

BP Amoco Statistical Review of World Energy main page:
The on-line version of BP Amoco's annual Statistical Review of World Energy (current version 1999). This detailed and informative review is organised by fuel type, with each section containing information on reserves, production, consumption and trade. Text, graphs and more detailed statistics (in Excel spreadsheets) are all downloadable.
http://www.bpamoco.com/worldenergy/

British Wind Energy Association home page:

A lovely site! Try out the clickable map of windfarm sites in the UK and get details of all the operating windfarms in the UK and Northern Ireland (also available as a table).
http://www.bwea.com/

China Environment, Energy main page:

This site contains information on the Chinese government’s energy policies, statistics of energy consumption, generation and pricing; and information by fuel type. Also included are a number of reports on aspects of energy use in China and links to the China Energy Efficiency Information Bulletin (back to 1995).
http://www.chinaenvironment.com/energy/index.html

The Centre for Alternative Technology:
This is a general site for alternative technology, not just energy resources. It contains many lively pages, including a new virtual tour of the site, and online short publications about a range of topics such as wind power and solar power.
http://www2.cat.org.uk/cat/

CADDET Renewable Energy site:

For an international view on renewable energy technologies, see the International Energy Agency CADDET site. Information is available on geothermal, biomass, waste, hydro, solar, wind and PV energy sources as developed in projects in a number of different countries.
http://www.caddet-re.org/