Skip to main content

The National Energy Modeling System (1992) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Appendix C: The Mission and Functions of the Department of Energy
Pages 113-118

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 113...
... [42 USCl/710133) ~ C7~ — ~ The pnuc~pal building blocks that were assembled withy the Department were: o The Federal Energy Administration, a high level planning and ac~rninistrative organization that previously had been created to administer the federal authorities stemming from the legislative and administrative responses to the "energy crisis" of the early 1970s; o The Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)
Read the entire page →
From page 114...
... The Energy Information Administration (ElA) , which was established within the DOE, was charged with a very broad responsibility for "...carrying out a central, comprehensive, and unibed energy data aIld information program which we collect, evaluate, assemble, analyze, and disseminate data and information which is relevant to energy resource reserves, energy production, demand, and technology, and related economic and statistical information' or which is relevant to the adequacy of energy resources to meet demands In the near and longer term future for the Nation's economic and social needs." A number of special provisions were incorporated in the ElA's enabling legislation that were intended to ensure the objectivity, validity, and independence from political bias of the Arlministration's data and analytical results.
Read the entire page →
From page 115...
... An important requirement upon DOE is to provide the information base and analytical support for the Secretary to comprehend the energy situation, formulate policy initiatives, particularly those that effectuate conservation and Incorporate national environmental protection goals, aIld respond with expert advice to the policy proposals advanced by Executive officials in the Executive Branch and by the Congress. I HE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AS SllIATEGIC PI^NNER The creation of DOE was responsive to a deeply felt need for comprehensive government surveillance of the national energy system and for the articulation of a comprehensive energy policy.
Read the entire page →
From page 116...
... . The DOE enabling act also specifies that the Department's role is: "to provide for a mechanism through which a coordinated national energy policy can be formulated and implemented to deal with the short-, mid-, and long-term energy problems of the Nation; and to develop plans "d programs for dealing with domestic energy production and import shortages." Despite the wide variation among political convictions about the appropriate level of governmental intervention into the marketplace, the notion that a "national energy policy" is an appropriate goal has persisted.
Read the entire page →
From page 117...
... Some specific information was available concerning the regulated energy utilities and the activities of the energy industries that pursued energy resource development on the public lands, but it did not provide comprehensive descriptions of even those energy activities. The energy supply industries themselves had some comprehension of the situation, but even the largest companies had remarkably little knowledge of the overall operation of their own industry sector beyond their own corporate activities and even less knowledge of their sector's Interactions with those of the other energy forms, or with end-users.
Read the entire page →
From page 118...
... In recent years' budgetary constraints along with an explicit policy promulgated by the Reagan Administration to restrict DOE research to long-term, high-risk technologies have acted to bias the R&D program toward the basic sciences and long-range nuclear technologies. Some exceptions, such as the "clean coal" demonstration program, enjoyed Congressional support and have survived.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • energy situation
  • energy policy
  • energy industries
  • policy initiatives
  • comprehensive energy

  • energy resources
  • energy resource
  • energy physics
  • energy programs
  • energy consumers

  • public lands
  • coordinated national
  • energy commission
  • energy data
  • energy conservation

  • federal energy
  • energy production
  • energy research
  • energy modeling
  • reagan administration

  • international negotiations
  • governmental intervention
  • energy planning
  • explicit policy
  • analysis program

  • technical reports
  • overall operation
  • widely held
  • prior approval
  • environmental quality


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.