| U.S. Energy Information Administration | |
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| Formed | October 1, 1977 |
| Jurisdiction | Federal Government of the United States |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
| Annual budget | $95.4 Million (FY2011)[1] |
| executives | Howard Gruenspecht, Acting Administrator Howard Gruenspecht, Deputy Administrator |
| Parent | United States Department of Energy |
| Website | |
| www.eia.gov | |
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
EIA is the Nation's premier source of energy information and, by law, its data, analyses, and forecasts are independent of approval by any other officer or employee of the United States government.
The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 established EIA as the primary federal government authority on energy statistics and analysis, building upon systems and organizations first established in 1974 following the oil market disruption of 1973.
EIA conducts a comprehensive data collection program that covers the full spectrum of energy sources, end uses, and energy flows; generates short- and long-term domestic and international energy projections; and performs informative energy analyses.
EIA disseminates its data products, analyses, reports, and services to customers and stakeholders primarily through its website and the customer contact center. EIA programs cover data on coal, petroleum, natural gas, electric, renewable and nuclear energy.
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Located in Washington, DC, EIA is an organization of about 380 federal employees, with an annual budget of $95.4 million in Fiscal Year 2011. The 2011 budget is 14 percent below the funding level in FY 2010 and required significant cuts in EIA's data, analysis, and forecasting activities. In addition to program changes, EIA also cut live telephone support at its Information Center. EIA's FY 2011 Congressional Budget submission, as well as its FY 2012 Congressional Budget submission, can be viewed at http://www.cfo.doe.gov/crorg/cf30.htm.
By law, EIA's products are prepared independently of policy considerations. EIA neither formulates nor advocates any policy conclusions. The Department of Energy Organization Act allows EIA's processes and products to be independent from review by Executive Branch officials; specifically, Section 205(d) says:
"The Administrator shall not be required to obtain the approval of any other officer or employee of the Department in connection with the collection or analysis of any information; nor shall the Administrator be required, prior to publication, to obtain the approval of any other officer or employee of the United States with respect to the substance of any statistical or forecasting technical reports which he has prepared in accordance with law." [2]
More than 2 million people use EIA's information online each month. Some of EIA's most popular products include:
The Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 created the Federal Energy Administration (FEA), the first U.S. agency with the primary focus on energy and mandated it to collect, assemble, evaluate, and analyze energy information. It also provided FEA with data collection enforcement authority for gathering data from energy producing and major consuming firms. Section 52 of the FEA Act mandated establishment of the National Energy Information System to "…contain such energy information as is necessary to carry out the Administration’s statistical and forecasting activities…"
The Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, Public Law 95-91, created the Department of Energy. Section 205 of this law established the Energy Information Administration (EIA) as the primary Federal Government authority on energy statistics and analysis to carry out a
...central, comprehensive, and unified energy data and information program which will collect, evaluate, assemble, analyze, and disseminate data and information which is relevant to energy resource reserves, energy production, demand, and technology, and related economic and statistical information, or which is relevant to the adequacy of energy resources to meet demands in the near and longer term future for the Nation’s economic and social needs.
The same law established that EIA's processes and products are independent from review by Executive Branch officials.
The majority of EIA energy data surveys are based on the general mandates set forth above. However, there are some surveys specifically mandated by law, including:
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