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In Beta Testing

  • CBECS Grocery Store Establishment Data ›

    Beta testing started October 12, 2016
    This EIA Beta data file includes CBECS data for grocery store establishments that were sampled within strip shopping centers during the main CBECS data collection. CBECS traditionally reports about strip shopping center buildings, not about the individual establishments within the building. In the process of producing building-level strip shopping center estimates, EIA collects some information about individual strip shopping center establishments. Grocery stores are often found within strip shopping center buildings instead of as standalone buildings and because they are high-intensity energy users that are of interest to some data users, EIA is making available a public use data file of 38 food sales establishments larger than 25,000 square feet. EIA recommends the establishment-level grocery store data be used for exploratory research uses only.

  • U.S. Electric System Operating Data ›

    Beta testing started July 25, 2016
    EIA's U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool provides hourly electricity operating data, including actual and forecast demand, net generation, and the power flowing between electric systems. The information is collected directly from each interconnected electric system on the EIA-930 survey to provide nearly real-time demand data. The U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool allows for analysis and visualizations of hourly, daily, and weekly electricity supply and demand on a national and regional level for all of the 66 electric system balancing authorities that make up the U.S. electric grid.

  • North American Cooperation on Energy Information (NACEI) ›

    Beta testing started February 16, 2016
    This site is the work of a trilateral energy information collaboration between the United States, Canada and Mexico for sharing of energy information for the North American region. This effort was launched to: improve respective energy import and export data; share publicly available geospatial information related to energy infrastructure; exchange views and projections on cross-border energy flows; and develop a cross reference in English, French, and Spanish for terminology, concepts, and definitions.

  • International Energy Portal ›

    Beta testing started May 18, 2015
    Our new International Portal includes an overview dashboard of the world's energy situation, detailed country-level analysis, a new interactive data browser, and rankings across fuel sources and activities. Our data covers over 200 countries for over 30 years. Visualizations include heat maps, bubble maps, column charts, and traditional line graphs, which can be animated over time.

  • Interactive Coal Data Browser ›

    Beta testing started February 25, 2014
    Uses advanced interactive programming techniques to combine the data from the Coal Quarterly, coal shipments from the EIA-923 survey, Mine Safety and Health Administration, and Census imports and exprts data into a single web tool. The user can select prepared reports or generate their own. Time series are always provided with interactive charting and animated national, state, basin and suppler network maps. Drill down views are provided for aggregate number where available.

Out of Beta & In Production

  • Improved Annual Energy Outlook Data Browser ›

    Beta tested April 14, 2015 - October 21, 2016
    Allows users to compare up to 4 cases against the reference case, and provides improved graphing and mapping capabilities. A built-in help function and video gives users tips on effective usage of this major update, which is now accessible from iPads and iPhones.

  • Application Programming Interface ›

    Beta tested September 28, 2012 - November 30, 2015
    The U.S. Energy Information Administration is committed to making its data available through an Application Programming Interface (API) to better serve our customers. An API allows computers to more easily access our public data. By making EIA data available in this machine-readable format, the creativity in the private, the non-profit, and the public sectors can be harnessed to find new ways to innovate and create value-added services powered by public data.

  • U.S. Crude Import Tracking Tool ›

    Beta tested November 10, 2014 - November 11, 2016
    Allows users to sort and display imports by month or year, density (i.e., light, medium, heavy), country of origin, port of entry, processing company, processing refinery, and more. The tool features graphing and mapping capabilities and a built-in help function

  • Total Energy Interactive Table Browser ›

    Beta tested Nov 4, 2013 - November 17, 2016
    The interactive table browser lets users view the data and create interactive graphs of the Monthly Energy Reveiw’s monthly and annual data series. The interactive charts can be zoomed and downloaded as PNG or PDF files. Each tables data can be download as a single Excel file with separate worksheets for monthly and annual date.

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