§790f Reports by Director

Summary

The Director must make regular reports and can make special reports to Congress and the public. These reports give a full picture of energy supply and use in the United States. They include weekly (when needed), monthly, and quarterly data for nonmineral energy, mineral fuels, and electricity. The reports can be organized by company, State, region, or other groups and include a discussion of important national and international trends. Each year the Director must publish a report that describes the Office and the National Energy Information System’s work, lists special reports and statistics from the prior year, shows short-, medium-, and long-term trends and forecasts, and, as much as possible, summarizes fuel and energy resources that can be brought to market at different prices and technologies and how they match future demand. The Director must provide full documentation for all statistical and forecast reports when they are published. The Director must regularly check and validate the methods used to make those reports and must make the validation and audit information available to the public. Before publishing technical statistical or forecasting reports prepared under the law, the Director does not have to get approval from any other government officer or employee about the report’s content.