| Energy Activity |
Categories |
Regions |
| Residential demand |
Sixteen end-use services
Three housing types
Thirtyfour enduse technologies |
Nine Census divisions |
| Commercial demand |
Ten enduse services
Eleven building types
Ten distributed generation technologies
Sixtyfour end-use technologies |
Nine Census divisions |
| Industrial demand |
Seven energyintensive
industries
Eight nonenergyintensive industries
Cogeneration |
Four Census regions, shared
to nine
Census divisions |
| Transportation demand |
Six car sizes
Six light truck sizes
Sixtythree conventional fuel-saving technologies
for lightduty vehicles
Gasoline, diesel, and thirteen alternativefuel
vehicle technologies for light-duty vehicles
Twenty vintages for light-duty vehicles
Narrow and widebody aircraft
Six advanced aircraft technologies
Medium and heavy freight trucks
Thirtyseven advanced freight truck technologie |
Nine Census divisions |
| Electricity |
Eleven fossil generation technologies
Two distributed generation technologies
Seven renewable generation technologies
Conventional and advanced nuclear
Marginal and average cost pricing
Generation capacity expansion
Seven environmental control technologies |
Fifteen electricity supply
regions (including
Alaska and Hawaii) based on the North
American Electric Reliability Council regions
and subregions
Nine Census divisions for demand |
| Renewables |
Wind, geothermal, solar thermal,
solar photovoltaic,
landfill gas, biomass, conventional hydropower |
Fifteen electricity supply
regions |
| Oil supply |
Onshore
Deep and shallow offshore
|
Six lower 48 onshore regions
Three lower 48 offshore regions
Three Alaska regions |
| Natural gas supply
|
Conventional lower48
onshore
Lower48 deep and shallow offshore
Coalbed methane
Gas shales
Tight sands
Canadian, Mexican, and liquefied natural gas
Alaskan Gas |
Six lower 48 onshore regions
Three lower 48 offshore regions
Three Alaska regions
Eight liquefied natural gas import regions |
| Natural gas transmission
and distribution |
Core vs. noncore
Peak vs. offpeak
Pipeline capacity expansion |
Twelve lower 48 regions
Ten pipeline border points |
| Refining |
Five crude oil categories
Fourteen product categories
More than 40 distinct technologies
Refinery capacity expansion |
Three refinery regions aggregated
from Petroleum Administration for Defense
Districts |
| Coal supply |
Three sulfur categories
Four thermal categories
Underground and surface mining types
Imports and Exports |
Eleven supply regions
Sixteen demand regions
Sixteen export regions
Twenty import regions |