US Energy Imperative Administration

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"The U.S. Energy Information Administration (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." (U.S. Energy Information Administration, n.d.)

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (U.S.EIA)  has a multitude of studies on topics from carbon emissions, to various energy distribution tables and charts, to studies of sources, prices and many more subjects on their website provided for source two. The U.S. EIA site contains a large amount of studies and has a lot of useful information amongst its pages.

I.Current Energy Sources and Uses

In America the energy sources are predominantly non-renewable some of those sources being natural gas, coal and petroleum. It comes as no surprise that there is only a finite amount of fossil fuels in addition fossil fuels produce a lot of excess pollution. An overview on our current energy usage can be found by browsing to the U.S. EIA's page http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/. This page contains a lot of useful charts and graphs that show past and present energy sources and consumption rates.

II. Average Wind Speed and Energy Production Potential

Source 2 does a good job with covering the topic of energy production potential and it was a bit more difficult to wind the section on average wind speed but it does exist here http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/ilands/fig13.html is the source for the average wind speeds similar to source 1's map.  The link http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/wind/wind.html gives a  good overview on wind energy resources with plenty of information on wind capacity that can be produced.

III.Average amount of energy produced and greenhouse gas emissions replacement

Other than reviewing the section on total energy to look at how much of the energy produced that is renewable the U.S. EIA's website was difficult to find specific information on this topic. More information about topic please refer to source 1 and source 3.

IV. Net Metering Laws

By going to the search bar and typing in “net metering” on the U.S. EIA's main site a number of studies come up many of them are very technical and contain many figures dealing with net metering, understanding the material may be difficult to digest. This website http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/solar.renewables/page/greenprice/green_pricing.html  shows net metering prices and an increase in net metering usage.  The U.S. EIA also give a good map of the existing grid system here http://www.eia.gov/state/ for more information on the energy grid of New York simply click on the link for New York at underneath the map.