Natural Resources committee  No.

Natural Resources committee  We still consider them customers or stakeholders, but they're not paying for anything, yes.

Natural Resources committee  I don't think it would conflict with any mandates. I think it makes it harder. At least in the United States, the populace is more skeptical of private data than federal data. One of the things that benefits federal organizations is their longevity, which contributes to their rep

Natural Resources committee  We put out a lot of articles that include information from Canada and Mexico. Of course, it's not as extensive as we have in the United States, but we love our North American brethren.

Natural Resources committee  Most of the information we currently get about either battery storage or photovoltaic systems we get directly from utilities, which are regulated in the United States, so their information is mostly available to everyone. We also get information in our residential energy consumpt

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I could give you a very quick response. I believe there are a lot of efficiencies and economies of scale in having one federal or national energy agency, and I'll give you an example. Most of our data transfer now happens through an application program interface; most of ou

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  I probably have a biased perspective on that, but yes, I think that's a good summary.

Natural Resources committee  The information that we collect from businesses is very business-competitive information. It's very sensitive. Unless we have the laws in place to safeguard information, those individuals wouldn't want to provide it. But as we are a federal agency with federal statutes that empow

Natural Resources committee  I don't consider myself an expert in that area, but I believe we work with our counterparts in Canada—NRCan and Statistics Canada—and the information we receive from them has always been of high quality. The only thing we sometimes wish we both had more of is energy use data. T

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it is.

Natural Resources committee  All of our funding comes from the federal government by U.S. taxpayers, and we provide all of our work for free to whoever wants it through our website.

Natural Resources committee  Sure. I think—

Natural Resources committee  Okay, I'll try to answer that question. Realize that my answer is very limited, because the Energy Information Administration only deals with the collection of energy information. We have the Environmental Protection Agency, which deals with other pollutants that contribute to cl

Natural Resources committee  In the United States, very little information at this point is obtained directly from states. All of the information is obtained mostly from users of energy or providers of energy or transporters of energy. We have good relationships with the states and we try to maintain them