Energy Information Administration
United States
Energy Information Administration Agency
Agency overview
Formed
October 1, 1977
Jurisdiction
Federal Government of the
United States
Headquarters Washington, D.C.
Annual
budget
$95.5 Million (FY2008)
Agency
executives
Howard Gruenspecht, Acting
Administrator
Howard Gruenspecht, Deputy
Administrator
Parent
agency
United States Department of
Energy
Website
www.eia.doe.gov
The United States Energy Information
Administration (EIA), created by Congress
in 1977, is the independent statistical agency
within the U.S. Department of Energy. EIA’s
mission
is
to provide policy-independent
data, forecasts, and analyses to promote
sound policy making, efficient markets, and
public understanding regarding energy and
its interaction with the economy and the
environment.
The agency collects data on energy re-
serves, production, consumption, distribu-
tion, prices, technology, and related interna-
tional, economic, and financial matters. This
information is disseminated as policy-inde-
pendent data, forecasts, and analyses. EIA
publishes long- and short-term energy fore-
casts. EIA programs cover data on coal, pet-
roleum, natural gas, electric, renewable and
nuclear energy.
Independence
By law, EIA’s products are prepared inde-
pendently of policy considerations. EIA
neither formulates nor advocates any policy
conclusions. The Department of Energy Or-
ganization Act allows EIA’s processes and
products to be independent from review by
Executive Branch officials; specifically Sec-
tion 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 informa-
tion; 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." [1]
Products, Publications,
and Databases