The Energy Information Administration (EIA), created by Congress in 1977, is a statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy which provides policy-independent data, forecasts, and analyses regarding energy sources. The Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91) allows EIA's processes and products to be independent from review by Executive Branch officials.

Energy sources covered on EIA's website include:

• Petroleum (crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, diesel, propane, jet fuel and other petroleum based products)
• Natural Gas (exploration and reserves, storage, imports and exports, production, prices, sales)
• Electricity (sales, revenue and prices, power plants, fuel use, stocks, generation, trade, demand & emissions)
• Coal (reserves, production, prices, employment and productivity, distribution, stocks, imports and exports)
• Nuclear (uranium fuel, nuclear reactors, generation, spent fuel)
• Renewable & Alternative Fuels (hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and ethanol)

The site also includes an international section; forecasts and analyses; historical data overview with monthly and yearly statistics across all fuels and state data; information on energy use in homes, commercial buildings, manufacturing and transportation; and an environment section with information on greenhouse gas data, voluntary reporting, and electric power plant emissions.

The site has an announcement and news section with press releases, upcoming reports, testimony, etc., and a publications and reports section that includes:

• Heating Oil & Propane Update
• Monthly Energy Review
• Annual Energy Outlook
• This Week in Petroleum
• Congressional Reports

An Energy Kid's Page provides tutorials on each of the energy sources.