01/04/2013 - Washington, United States

I've looked through the extremely extensive lists looking for a chart showing state-by-state electricity generation by source (coal, natural gas, nuclear, etc.) Haven't found it. Help? Thansk John Sellers Teacher

Try EIA's Electricity Data Browser.  (Please click the HELP button to view the short video.)

12/19/2012 - Wyoming, United States

http://www.eia.gov/beta/state/seds/seds-data-fuel.cfm?sid=US# This page does not work at all. CC

This page contains the partial and planned release partial dates. After the final release, it will contain only the release schedule with no data until the next cycle starts.

12/13/2012 - California, United States

Suggest linking the site to the Solar Energy Development PEIS which pertains to the 6 southwestern states. See http://solareis.anl.gov and http://solarmapper.anl.gov. Solar mapper is a web mapping application. We have map services for its content, and adding the solar energy zones to your map may make sense. There is also a programmatic EIS for wind on BLM lands here: http://windeis.anl.gov.

11/26/2012 - Florida, United States

Hi, The application usefulness is profound, however, it is quite sluggish at times. I feel like the program is attempting to access and handle all the information at once as opposed to accessing a database pathway...So the design is good, but the software construction and data access paths seem to be holding it back...is there a possible redesign for how the program carries itself...?? Cheers, Devin A.

Dynamic maps are inherently slower than tile-based systema.  The speed is the tradeoff to allow you to select any of 38 layers (2^38 combinations) instead of a couple of set views. 

11/25/2012 - California, United States

Please provide tables for previous years that show consumption and price (or expenditures) by fuel for all states together (similar to C10 but with expenditures) so it is not necessary to look up data individually by state.

We have noted the request for a dynamic browser to query the SEDS data.

11/15/2012 - California, United States

Under California Energy Consumption I do not understand why you broke down the different types of crude oil- I think it looks misleading and makes people not see that in CA half of our energy consumption comes from Crude Oil. I think you should show Crude Oil as a whole, like the rest of the natural resources listed.

See Table C1. Energy Consumption Overview

11/15/2012 - New Hampshire, United States

The EIA is great and I love getting their info, but the CSV files published are virtually impossible to use because the labels are crazy, and when trying to copy-paste from the PDFs, the information doesn't retain itself as a table. Is there another way to download the information in order to easily make graphs, charts, etc?

Thanks for bringing this issue to our attention.  The CSV download routines have been improved/fixed.  Please try again.

11/08/2012 - Virginia, United States

Thank you for creating this wonderful interactive map, my only complain is somewhat slow load times of the different overlays of views. Thank you. - Walker

Thanks for the complement.  As for the load times, the maps are generated on the fly from millions of shapes contained in 38 layers plus a base map tile set.  It is as fast as we can make it with current technology.

11/08/2012 - Virginia, United States

Make it easier to go back to the map where you can pick another state. The little "US State" at the top is ridiculous.

Please use the "Change State/Territory" right under the page title.

11/06/2012 - New Mexico, United States

User Friendly Reports more visually friendly

11/02/2012 - Michigan, United States

The zip code field when you click on power plants for further data is being read as a number and contains a comma (i.e. EIA's zip code would read 20,585)

This bug will be fixed when the profiles are moved out of beta status. 

11/01/2012 - Pennsylvania, United States

It would be helpful to add the energy consumption per sector and type, ie., how much gas, electric, etc is utilized per residential, commercial or industrial area. This could be very useful in determining what measures can be taken for energy conservation in a more economical fashion.

10/26/2012 - Colorado, United States

Hello. I write the coal and renewable energy report for the State of Colorado. The coal data is updated, but the renewable information is way old. Your Colorado state profile is from 2009. Your statistics are from 2008 and I noticed that many of them are discontinued. I have relied on DOE EIA for ages and now it just does not keep up with the burgening renewable energy data needed for my state.

An update of the analyses is underway, but this effort will a while.

10/26/2012 - District of Columbia, United States

I was unable to download the data from the graph Louisiana Energy Consumption Estimates, 2010 (http://www.eia.gov/beta/state/?sid=LA) using firefox, but I was able to using explorer.

We will look into this.

10/25/2012 - New York, United States

I'd appreciate some of the same detailed information on propane.

10/25/2012 - New York, United States

One additional layer of information which could be helpful is showing company specific assets. For example, using the same MSHA controller information to filter coal mines would be very helpful.

10/25/2012 - New York, United States

This is great! I work in energy education, largely using the topic of the Marcellus Shale as a teachable moment that gets people actually thinking about where their energy comes from. I'll be using the resource often. It'd be even cooler if the map info could be downloaded for use in Google Earth.

Thank you.  (Note that our linking policy prevents us from sharing your presentation.) 

10/23/2012 - Washington, United States

I have never found more information in an easier to use interface than I have at this site. What you have done here is amazing. Thank you so much.

10/23/2012 - Wisconsin, United States

The new map is not user friendly for my students. I have used this for a renewable/non-renewable energy project for a few years now and the old maps with the detailed legend of the renewable and non-renewable energy were much more helpful. Where can I find the old version of the state maps?

10/23/2012 - China

hope you introduce the country-level portal.

10/22/2012 - Texas, United States

You should always have the option to download in excel. For the screens on the web, the data headings both across the top and down the left hand side should be fixed, while the user scrolls across the page. but you guys do a great job! thanks a lot.

10/22/2012 - Wisconsin, United States

For the price rankings it might be helpful to specify if a high ranking corresponds with high or low prices. Consumers will likely consider lower prices a better thing so may expect that the lowest price state would be ranked #1. If it functions like the other rankings, however, that state would be ranked #50. A short clarification in the sidebar would be helpful.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback.

10/22/2012 - Oklahoma, United States

This interactive energy browser is absolutely awesome. Your website was already the most user-friendly way to sift through our nation's incredibly complex energy portfolio, and it just got easier. Thanks!

10/19/2012 - Texas, United States

I do not like the change. In the past you had a GREAT interactive maps that showed power plant, refineries, etc. These maps were much easier to read and mad sense when printed. Similar maps were available for each state. When you rolled over a power plant or refinery on the map an information box popped up with specific information for that site. The new map format is very hard to read due to the change in symbols and the layering. The information is still great but the maps are not very user friendly. I wish you would change back.

Because of the number of map elements particularly at high zoom level, you must click on the electricty plant to get the pop-up information.  Note that from the plant pop-up, you can nagivate to that plant in the Electricty Data Browser to chart generation, fuel consumption and more. 

10/19/2012 - Ohio, United States

In the main US map, when you hover over a state, it would be nice to see some key points about that state. Also, when I click on a state, it takes a really long time to load the map and then there are tons of icons/symbols---I thought be hovering over them I would be able to see what they mean. I was also hoping to see the county break out/names by state. I hope you will continue to enhance this product. It is a great resource.

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.

10/16/2012 - United Kingdom

I like that the maps are interactive and you can click on icons to get additional details. However, is it possible to extend this functionality to the pipelines and railways?

We are working to add attributes to all of the layers.

10/15/2012 - Maryland, United States

this is great

10/11/2012 - Washington, United States

I liked the old website where we could view maps of each type of energy production and distribution networks on the Profiles of US States page as soon as we pulled it up. Very useful for my Geography class. Now it is much more difficult to find these maps.

The map on the home page is now used to navigate to the state profiles.  Try the full screen mode of the interactive maps and select among the predefined views and base maps.  These should meet your needs.  

10/11/2012 - Maine, United States

I've been using EIA state data since 2006 and have to say that this latest change in format has made things more difficult to navigate. I'm mainly interested in accessing state csv files and it's almost impossible to find them now. And why, when finally finding a state, is that map presented with all the meaningless symbols? Finally, I hope in your reworking of the state data you don't change the codes - such as ESTCB, etc. They may seem arcane to users at first, but work very well after one becomes accustomed to them. I hope I'm not being too critical and this helps. Sincerely, Hans N.

Our apologies for the inconvenience that an reorganization of the website always imposes.  We will add a tip sheet to explain the symbols and the layer sources and limitations, as there is insufficient space in the small map.

10/11/2012 - California, United States

Hi, great website. But, the Ameresco Ox Mountain Plant (Code: 56895) in Half Moon bay has the wrong coordinates listed. The following are the correct coordinates: 37.3, -122.2 Thanks!

Thank you for the feedback.  We will update the coordinate in the next release.

10/11/2012 - United States

the map is hard to navigate. the select and zoom in/out functions are a little strange (and where is the reset button??). it is not clear that the users can click on the individual plants to see their details. and it is not clear either what different levels of color shading means (resource abundance??)

Thank you for the input.  We are planning an update to make the legend more useful and reexamining the color and pattern combinations used in the basin field layers.