WEB SITES for BASIC INFORMATION

Energy Kid's Page
Energy Ant is your tour guide through this site where you can discover facts about renewable and non-renewable sources of energy, play energy games, and go on field trips to different energy sites. Created by the Energy Information Administration.

Energy Tutorial
A browsable overview of energy sources, featuring photographs, statistics, and quizzes. Topics include fossil fuels, oil shale, nuclear, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and wastes, hydroelectric, fuel cell, combustion, gasification, reciprocating engine, and turbines.

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
"A gateway to hundreds of Web sites and thousands of online documents on energy efficiency and renewable energy," including information about buildings, transportation, industry, bioenergy, hydrogen, solar, wind, ocean, hydropower, and geothermal power."

Do you know where your power comes from?
National Grid provides the answers for Massachusetts.

SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

This database, designed for high school students, has access to a variety of magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.
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This Gale database has contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues, featuring continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, journal, and news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, and links to quality web sites. (Funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners) FULL SUITE OF GALE DATABASES
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WEB SITES for ADVANCED INFORMATION

Energy Information Administration
A primary source for energy statistics. Provides data and analyses about the supply, consumption, distribution, and price of energy in the United States.

Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: Energy & Utilities
Basic statistics about enery and utilities.

Renewable Resource Data Center
"The RReDC provides access to an extensive collection of renewable energy resource data, maps, and tools. Biomass, geothermal, solar, and wind resource data for locations throughout the United States can be found through the RReDC."

International Energy Outlook
"The International Energy Outlook 2008 (IEO2008) presents an assessment by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the outlook for international energy markets through 2030."

Wind & Hydropower Technologies Program
Provides overviews of how wind power and hydropower works, and explores the history and advantages and disadvantages of each.

National Energy & Environment Agenda
How the White House plans to provide America's future energy needs.

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updated 05/12/2011