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The California Energy Commission offers these on-line databases and raw data sources.

	BUGS 1 - Database of Public Back-Up Generators (BUGS) in California (Updated January 2004) Microsoft Excel file listing of all public back-up generators in California greater than 300 kW. (2.3 megabytes. Note: File has been been edited to remove street addresses because of homeland security concerns. PLEASE NOTE FILE SIZE! YOU MAY NEED TO INCREASE MEMORY ALLOCATION IN EXCEL!) This database was assembled largely from information received from all the air districts in California except the Bay Area AQMD, with supplemental information supplied by the California Department of Corrections, the Office of Energy Assessments of the California Department of General Services, PG&E, Silicon Valley Power, and a major telecommunications company operating in the state. The user of this inventory needs to be aware of several features and assumptions made in assembling elements of the database, as well as several known limitations. Data on BUGs in the Bay Area AQMD is limited to that supplied by PG&E, Silicon Valley Power, and the major telecommunications company. The inventory most certainly does not include all BUGs in BAAQMD. A report regarding this inventory is available at: www.energy.ca.gov/reports/2002-02-15_500-01-027.PDF (PDF file, 38 pages, 222 kb).

	California Power Plants Database This is a 292 kilobyte Microsoft Excel file that you can download and open in your computer using a database or spreadsheet program. The database lists all power plants in California one-tenth (0.1) megawatt or larger by name, county where located, owner, operator, and other information. Information has been updated and is current as of September 2007. For a listing of power plants under construction or under license review, please go to: ../sitingcases/ The spreadsheet can be sorted using your Excel software to list plants by resource type, size, county, etc. When downloading, your browser may display the file on screen as a text file with "strange-looking" characters. This is normal if you don't have your computer set up to handle FTP downloads or the Excel "mime" type. Using the pull-down file menu, save the file as a text file and open it from your spreadsheet or database program. 2007 Database of California Power Plants

	DEER -- Database for Energy Efficient Resources Windows-based Computer Program for PC-compatible computers. Database for Energy Efficient Resources (DEER) contains extensive information on selected energy-efficient technologies and measures. The DEER provides estimates of the average cost, market saturation, and energy-savings potential for these technologies in residential and nonresidential applications. The database contains information on baseline or typical measures -- those commonly installed in the marketplace -- and data on the costs and benefits of more energy-efficient measures. Energy-efficient measures provide the same energy services using less energy, but they usually cost slightly more. Baseline measures provide a comparison case against which to estimate the incremental costs and energy impacts of installing these more energy-efficient measures. Specific data for each technology include size, efficiency, energy savings, saturation by climate area and by utility area, and useful life.

	Global Energy Connection On-Line Directory of California Energy Companies The on-line database is contains information about energy companies in California and the rest of the United States that are interested in doing business with the world.

	Electricity Substations in California This is a Microsoft Excel 4.0 file that you can download and open in your computer using a database or spreadsheet program. The database lists the 2,300+ electricity substations in California by name, county where located, owner, and the Energy Commission Transmission Line Map the substation is shown on. For a copy, please contact the Commission Cartography Office (916) 654-3902.

	Gasoline Stations in California Listing of gasoline stations by county in California in 2001-2002.

	Nonresidential Market Share Tracking Study This study produced a public access database and a summary report that are designed to help energy efficiency program planners understand technologies and behaviors in industrial and commercial energy user markets. In the database and the summary report you will find: Market shares of efficient technologies and processes and of their standard alternatives Market attributes, such as what items must be special ordered Information on decision-making practices in firms, related to their energy use

	Residential Appliance Saturation Survey Commission reports on subject with link to on-line database.

	Weekly Fuels Watch Database Database of weekly oil refinery production and stock levels with data from 1990 to present. Updated weekly, usually every Thursday for the previous week's data. Data is searchable by year, month and week.

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