The Annual Energy Review (AER) is a statistical history of energy activities in the United States. It contains chapters on each of the major fuels and renewable energy, as well as data on end-use consumption, energy resources, environmental indicators, and financial indicators. It extends many of the data series found in the Monthly Energy Review back to 1949, making it possible to observe long-term trends and milestones in U.S. energy production, trade, storage, pricing, and consumption.
Samples of figures from the recently-released Annual Energy Review 2001 are shown below; they document American consumption and production of petroleum, coal, and natural gas, and the sources of electricity net generation.
To address the changing nature of the U.S. electric power industry, a team of Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysts conducted a review over the past year of how EIA collects, estimates, and reports electricity-related statistics. In particular, the review addressed the way EIA reports fuel consumption for electrical generation.
As a result of this review, EIA has begun organizing electric power generation and fuel use data into two new categories: electricity-only and combined-heat-and power (CHP) plants. These categories separate power plants by function (power only or power plus thermal) rather than by ownership class (electric utilities and nonutility power producers), as was previously the case.
A complete description of the new methodology is found in Appendix H of the printed document and on the AER Web page under the "Discussion on Electric Power Changes" heading. The AER 2001 is the first of the EIA's publications to present power sector data in the new categories.
Because power facilities use many types of fuels and operate in all sectors of the economy (e.g., commercial buildings, such as hospitals and college campuses, and industrial facilities, such as paper mills and refineries), changes to electric power data affect some data series in nearly all fuel areas. The new approach also caused revisions in historical data in the AER tables, and will lead to changes in a wide variety of EIA publications.
In the coming months, EIA will release other annual publications with the new categories, followed by recast monthly publications. These changes will be incorporated into the Monthly Energy Review during 2003.
Annual Energy Review 2001, DOE/EIA-0384(2001); 430 pages, 164 tables, 5 diagrams.Contact the National Energy Information Center at (202) 586-8800 for the price of a printed copy.
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