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Acid Rain Program Forms
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Acid Rain Program. Forms required under the US EPA's Acid Rain Program, including those required for the Allowance System, Permitting, Monitoring, the Opt-In Program, Annual Reconciliation, the Allowance Auction, and Conservation and Renewable Energy Reserve. The forms are in PDF and WordPerfect formats.
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Basis converter (coal)
By Evomarkets LLC. Converts coal values between as-received, dry and air-dried bases. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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BTS Core DataBook
By Department of Energy's Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs (BTS). Data related to energy use in commercial and residential buildings. Topics include: energy consumption and expenditures; end-use splits; geographic region and vintage; construction statistics; and, estimated carbon emissions. Tables are fully indexed, and can be viewed as HTML or PDF formats or downloaded as a spreadsheet (tab-delimited) file. The entire DataBook can be downloaded as a PDF file (registration required).
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Calculation of fouling and slagging factors
By Evomarkets LLC. Calculates fouling and slagging factors for coal. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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Cost of Coal on a Cents-per-Million-BTU Basis
By Evomarkets LLC. Find ¢/mm BTU using delivered price and BTU/lb. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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Delivered Price on a $/Ton Basis
By Evomarkets LLC. Find delivered price of coal using ¢/mm BTU and BTU/lb. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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Energy Content in a Ton of Coal
By Evomarkets LLC. Find mm BTU/ton of coal using BTU/lb. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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Energy Star Products
By US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Energy. Helps you make the most economical purchases for your facilities and home with a simple estimate of potential energy savings.
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Energy Unit Converter
By The JavaScript Source. Use this online calculator to convert from one unit of energy to another, including Joules, Kg-meters, ft-lbs, Kw-hrs, Kcal, Btus, and more.
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Energy Units Converter
By Evomarkets LLC. Convert values between Kcal/kg of coal to BTU/lb. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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Google PowerMeter
By Google. Google PowerMeter is a free electricity usage monitoring tool that provides you with information on how much electricity your home is consuming. Works with several utilities and instruments.
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Green Conference Initiative
By US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). Opportunities for conference planners and suppliers (e.g., hoteliers, convention centers, and food service providers) that can help reduce pollution, energy use, and water use at a conference.
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Heat Transmission Properties of Insulating and Building Materials
By National Institute of Standards and Technology. A reference for building designers, material manufacturers, and researchers in the thermal design of building components and equipment.
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HOMER
By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). A computer model that simplifies the task of evaluating design options for both off-grid and grid-connected power systems for remote, stand-alone, and distributed generation (DG) applications. HOMER's optimization and sensitivity analysis algorithms allow you to evaluate the economic and technical feasibility of a large number of technology options and to account for variation in technology costs and energy resource availability.
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Proform
By Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ProForm is a software tool designed to support a basic assessment of the environmental and financial impacts of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. Given the necessary data, ProForm calculates basic financial indicators and avoided emissions of CO2 and local air pollutants expected from a project. Registration required.
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Residential Energy Efficiency
By US Environmental Protection Agency and Purdue University. Shows effective ways to reduce home energy consumption. Topics include insulation, windows, doors, weather-stripping, and caulking. The expert system feature allows users to calculate how much they will save by making their homes more energy efficient. After you enter information about your home and the energy-saving changes you intend to make, the program uses local utility and climate data to calculate your savings in money, energy, and reduction of pollutants. Useful for everyone from the general public to utility managers.
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RETScreen Renewable Energy Project Analysis Software
By CANMET Energy Diversification Research Laboratory (CEDRL) of Natural Resources Canada. With RETScreen, users are able to prepare a preliminary evaluation of the annual energy production, costs and financial viability of Renewable Energy Technology (RET) projects anywhere in the world. The software runs on Microsoft Excel
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Tons Converter
By Evomarkets LLC. Convert quantity and value of coal on a mt-vs-nt basis. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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U.S. Life-Cycle Inventory Database
By National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). This database provides a cradle-to-grave accounting of the energy and material flows into and out of the environment that are associated with producing a material, component, or assembly. It's an online storeroom of data collected on commonly used materials, products, and processes.
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Value of SO2 Differential Between Two Coals
By Evomarkets LLC. Find the $/ton differential between two coals based on the spot SO2 emission price. (No cost, but you must register to obtain access)
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