LibGuides: Energy: Home

Main energy databases

Compendex
Leads to articles, conference papers and more in engineering, physics, and technical energy topics
Web of Science
Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals, 1900 - present. Covers many aspects of energy topics. Also used for tracking citations.
Scifinder
Comprehensive chemical information database. Covers scientific journals, patents, conference proceedings, and technical papers. 1907 - present. You must register at http://libraries.mit.edu/cas-reg before using the first time.
AAPG Datapages
Full-text from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
One Petro [SPE] eLibrary]
Technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry from the Society of Petroleum Engineers. 1925 - present.

Building Green Suite
includes High Performance Buildings, Greenspec, and more.
Greenspec Database of Green Building Products
Information on green design, including information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building.
High Performance Buildings Database
A database of more than 160 high-performance sustainable building case studies.

IEA (International Energy Agency) databases

More statistical databases

UNdata Energy Statistics Database
Download energy data from statistical agencies throughout the United Nations. Series on energy cover topics such as consumption, exports, imports, and production.
UDI world electric power plants data base
Global inventory of electric power generating units. Contains design data for plants of all sizes and technologies operated by regulated utilities, private power companies, and industrial autoproducers (captive power). 2017 data now in Dataverse

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Dataverse here: https://dataverse.org/
Department of Energy Data Explorer (DDE)
Collections of numeric files, figures and data plots, multimedia and images, computer simulations, specialized databases, and interactive data maps.

Energywire
Tracks environmental and energy action in Congress; 2013+
Environment and Energy Daily
Like Energywire, but 1996+
Environment Index
Covers air, water, energy, and land resources from a policy point of view. 1973+

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NTIS
U.S. government-sponsored research reports & studies.
NTRL
Contains PDFs of many reports. For better search capabilities, try NTIS.