www.enreport.com

PJM's website has lots of interesting presentations for TSO, generator and distribution trainings.

http://www.pjm.com/training/training-material.aspx

"ARPA-E's first solicitation resulted in $151 million dollars of funding for 37 ambitious energy research projects in 17 states. As depicted in the charts below, ARPA-E’s portfolio now includes researchers from across industry and academia; including significant small business and national laboratory participation."
These 37 projects are distributed as follows : (According to categories)


More on funded projects at : http://arpa-e.energy.gov/FundedProjects.aspx

Congressional Budget Office has cost estimates on Energy and Climate Change Acts.
Follow this link for the pages : http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/collections.cfm?collect=9

"The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. An important vehicle for presenting the Administration’s domestic and international economic policies, it provides an overview of the nation's economic progress with text and extensive data appendices."
I advise you to read
Chapter 9: Transforming the Energy Sector and Addressing Climate Change
From the link

From : http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/nuclear-energy-lobbying-push/story/nuclear-energy-working-hard-win-support/

According to report by Investigative Reporting Workshop:
"The Workshop was the first to report last October that more than 80 percent of the first $1 billion in grants to wind energy companies went to foreign firms. Since then, the administration has stopped making announcements of new grants to wind, solar and geothermal companies, but has handed out another $1 billion, bringing the total given out to $2.1 billion and the total that went to companies based overseas to more than 79 percent."

http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/wind-energy-funds-going-overseas/story/renewable-energy-money-still-going-abroad/

An interesting piece to read.
"For one, promised energy savings might not materialize ... As the Alliance to Save Energy points out, states cannot even agree on how much energy is saved from a single compact fluorescent light bulb http://ase.org/content/article/detail/5976."

"The nation’s utilities increased their spending on energy efficiency by 43% in 2009, according to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency. In all, utilities spent $4.4 billion for electric energy efficiency and $930 million for natural gas programs. In addition, CEE found that 46 states offered energy efficiency programs last year, up from 37 states in 2008. http://www.cee1.org/files/2009CEEAnnualReport.pdf."

By Elisa Wood
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2010/02/how-risky-are-energy-efficiency-investments

On 28th Jan 2010 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, "Global Energy Outlook" discussion has taken place. Chaired by Daniel Yergin, the session hosted Ilham Aliyev, BP's Tony Hayward, Saudi Aramco's Khalid Al Falih, Shell's Peter Voser, Dow Chemicals's Andrew Liveris and Total's Thierry Desmarest.

Video available from: http://wef2010.unitec-media.tv/20100128/20100128.html
Transcript: http://www.weforum.org/pdf/AM_2010/transcripts/global-energy.pdf

For data and relevant information. Especially climate data for planning and operations

http://wef2010.unitec-media.tv/20100128/20100128.html

This Guardian news is an interesting piece

Ageing coal-fired power stations should be exempted from environmental regulations and kept open to stop the lights from going out, the chief executive of E.ON UK has urged the government.

You can read the rest from here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/18/eon-coal-plant-plea

As Iraq became more stabilised, the prospects for its oil production has increased. Here you can see enemy initiated attacks against invasion forces in Iraq.The difference is obvious.
 
Early Warning website has made a detailed analyses for Iraq's future production. By 2015 there is a possibility that Iraq may produce up to 12 million barrels/day. That is three folds of its previous peak (3.6 million b/d). Therefore keep an eye on Iraq's production and E&P developments.
 


Check the link : http://earlywarn.blogspot.com/2009/12/iraqi-oil-production-history.html