Meeting of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Committee on Energy Statistics
with the
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
May 4-5, 2017
Washington, D.C.
Thursday May 4, 2017
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Frauke Kreuter, Chair, ASA Committee on Energy Statistics
9:05 a.m. Opening Remarks, Howard Gruenspecht, EIA Deputy Administrator
9:20 a.m. International and State Collaborations for Energy Data, Shirley Neff, Office of the Administrator and Pauline George, Office of Communications
10:05 a.m. Break
10:20 a.m. More, Better, and Sooner (MBS): Initiatives for MBS Statistical Products in Office of Energy Consumption and Efficiency Statistics, Introduction by Hiroaki Minato, Office of Energy Statistics:
- External-to-RECS estimates revisited: Degree-day Base Temperatures and Lags in Monthly Datasets, Greg Lawson, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Mimi Goldberg
- Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) Water Consumption Data, Katie Lewis, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Anna Alberini and Rachel Shwom
11:15 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. More, Better, and Sooner (MBS) cont’d:
- “Mini” version of the Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS), Tom Lorenz, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Bob Stine and Lynne Stokes
- Web Crawl Technology – An Innovative Approach to Survey Frame Development, Cynthia Sirk, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Bob Bell and Yulia Gel
- Transportation R&D on New Sensor Data, Mike Stanley, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Leads: Bob Bell and Yulia Gel
12:30 p.m. Lunch – Conference Room off of the DOE Cafeteria, 2E-001 (Committee members, presenters, and EIA senior staff)
1:45 p.m. Office of Energy Analysis/Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) Update, Ian Mead, Office of Energy Analysis
2:05 p.m. World Oil Price Model, Terry Yen and Melissa Lynes, Office of Energy Analysis; ASA Leads: Fred Joutz and Andy Kydes
2:50 p.m. Break
3:05 p.m. International Electricity Market Model, Michelle Bowman, Office of Energy Analysis; ASA Lead: John Weyant
3:50 p.m. Natural Gas City Gate Prices in the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), Tuncay Alparslan, Joe Benneche, and Katie Dyl, Office of Energy Analysis; ASA Leads: Jack Schuenemeyer and Andrew Acosta
4:35 p.m. Disclosure Avoidance, David Kinyon, Office of Energy Statistics
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
5:30 p.m. Dinner (Committee members and EIA senior staff)
Friday May 5, 2017
9:00 a.m. Open Meeting, Frauke Kreuter, ASA Committee Chair
9:05 a.m. Enterprise Needs Analysis, Stacy Angel, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Lead: Mimi Goldberg
9:50 a.m. Break
10:05 a.m. Redesign of Estimating Methodology for Weekly State-level Coal Production, Brian Park, Office of Energy Statistics; ASA Lead: Tim Coburn
10:50 a.m. Big Data/Applied Data Analytics, Frauke Kreuter
11:35 a.m. Committee recommendations, additional comments, date and topics for next meeting
12:00 p.m. Adjourn
Lunch in 2E-069 (ASA Committee, presenters, and EIA senior staff)