Energy information

This guide is dedicated to energy-related research, resources and literature.

Energy Industry and Market Research Databases

These resources will help you find:

  • Trends on wind power generation 
  • Information about energy, including prices, production, and consumption
  • World supply and consumption of oil
  • Natural gas worldwide supply, consumption and prices
  • Geospatial data on various energy sources

Note: Many of these resources are available through the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
S&P industry surveys and The Outlook.
Business Monitor Online
Country risk ratings, macroeconomics analyses and forecasts, and industry analysis.
Lux Research
Market research reports, company information, etc., for following industries: nanomaterials, solar, alternative power & energy storage, water, bIofuels & biomaterials, targeted delivery, green building.
Power eTrack
News, deal information, company profiles and industry analysis, reports and market intelligence data for alternative energy technologies, including wind, hydro, solar, ocean, geothermal, biofuels, fuel cells.
TruCost
Environmental economics database linking financial and environmental performance. View and download individual Company Briefings that detail key Issues, data disclosure, peer group analysis and regulatory assessments regarding the economic consequences of natural capital dependency.
OnePetro
OnePetro currently contains more than 80,000 documents, with more being added frequently. OnePetro.org provides access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry.
Engineering Village (Compendex)
(Full-text 1884-present)Comprehensive core engineering database. Containing over nine million references and abstracts from over 5,000 engineering journals, conferences and technical reports.
Scopus
Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database which searches 14,200 titles from 4,000 different publishers.

Government and Technical Reports

Advanced Energy Legislation Tracker
Legal information about clean energy legislation across the 50 states
CQ Researcher Congress Collection
Historic legislative background information
CQ Researcher Online Energy Reports
Energy background information, charts and graphs, and source lists for further reading on energy issues.
www.science.gov
Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies
OECD iLibrary - Energy
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. Includes series such as the Energy Policies of IEA Countries and the annual World Energy Outlook. 
SciTech Connect
SciTech Connect (formerly OSTI's Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database)  includes technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information sponsored by DOE.

GCEP Technical Library

GCEP's popular Energy 101 Tutorials are part of a video library. http://gcep.stanford.edu/learn/energy101.html