The Annual Energy Review (AER) is a comprehensive statistical portrait of energy in the United States. It covers all major energy activities, including consumption, production, trade, stocks, and prices. It contains chapters on each of the major fuels and renewable energy, as well as data on end-use consumption, energy resources, environmental indicators, and financial indicators. Its primary focus is on U.S. energy, but it also includes data on international energy.

Many of the data series contained in the AER are unique to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), and many extend back to 1949, making it possible to observe long-term trends and milestones in U.S. energy production, trade, storage, pricing, and consumption.

Key data are presented in British thermal units (Btu) as well as physical units, allowing comparisons of the relative importance of energy sources and uses, and how these proportions change over time.

An introductory, graphics-rich section entitled "Energy Perspectives" illustrates fundamental, long-term trends together with a concise explanatory narrative. This section will be published as a separate booklet later in the year. The AER also contains an extensive glossary of energy terms.

The source for most of the information in the report is data collected by the EIA, but the AER also includes relevant data from other federal agencies including the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Federal Department of Transportation, as well as international agencies, and some private-sector providers.

The AER contains almost five hundred graphs that illustrate the data presented in the tables. Very popular with users are the five flow diagrams -- total energy, petroleum, coal, and natural gas, and electricity generation. Shown below from the recently-released Annual Energy Review 2002, is the overall, summary diagram that traces the flow of total U.S. energy from production through consumption.

The AER, available now on the EIA Web site, will soon be released in print. The data on the Web site are offered in a variety of downloadable formats. All graphs on the Web are in color.

Annual Energy Review 2002, DOE/EIA-0384(2002); 411 pages, 168 tables, 5 diagrams.
The print version of the AER will be available in late November.

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