Meeting of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Committee on Energy Statistics
with the
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
April 14-15, 2016
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Max Auffhammer, Chair, ASA Committee on Energy Statistics
9:05 a.m. Opening Remarks, Adam Sieminski, EIA Administrator
9:35 a.m. Green Button Connect Data: An Interim Report on a Pilot Data Collection, Tom Leckey, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Miriam Goldberg, Max Auffhammer
10:20 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Global Hydrocarbons Supply Model Project, Terry Yen and David Manowitz, Office of Energy Analysis; ASA Leads: John Weyant and Andy Kydes
11:15 a.m. New Analysis from the 2012 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS): Consumption and End Uses, Joelle Michaels, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Lynne Stokes and Rachael Shwom
12:00 p.m. Lunch – Conference Room off of the DOE Cafeteria, 2E-001 (Committee members, presenters, and EIA senior staff)
1:30 p.m. Midfield Adjustments to the 2015 RECS and Future Program Change, Eileen O’Brien, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Lynne Stokes and Rachael Shwom
2:30 p.m. Oil Consumption Weighted GDP, Vipin Arora, Office of Energy Analysis; ASA Leads: Fred Joutz and John Weyant
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Automatic Model Calibration: Experience with the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM), David Daniels, Office of Energy Analysis; ASA Leads: Andy Kydes and Mike Cohen
4:15 p.m. Adding Short-Term Refinery Modeling to the Short-Term Energy Outlook, Sean Hill, Office of Energy Analysis; ASA Lead: Tim Coburn
5:00 p.m. Edits & Corrections Standardization, Preston McDowney, Office of Energy Statistics.
6:00 p.m. Dinner (Committee members and EIA senior staff)
Friday April 15, 2016
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Max Auffhammer, ASA Committee Chair
9:05 a.m. Gasoline Station Listings, Nanda Srinivasan, Office of Energy Statistics
9:20 a.m. Variance Estimation of Weekly Changes in Underground Natural Gas Storage Report, David Kinyon, Office of Energy Statistics, ASA leads: Bob Stine, Jack Schuenemeyer
10:10 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Deriving Weekly Exports with International Trade Data System from Customs & Border Patrol/Census, Doug MacIntyre, Office of Energy Statistics
10:45 a.m. Data Harmonization: North America, Mike Conner, Office of Energy Statistics. ASA Leads: Mike Cohen and Frauke Kreuter
11:30 p.m. Additional comments, topics for next meeting
11:45 a.m. Adjourn
Lunch in 2E-069 (ASA Committee, presenters, and EIA senior staff)