Annual Energy Outlook 2000 With Projections To 2020

Presents midterm forecasts of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2020 prepared by the Energy Information Admin. (EIA). The projections are based on results from EIA's National Energy Modeling System. Discusses evolving legislative and regulatory issues. Also discusses macroeconomic projections, world oil and natural gas markets, oxygenates in gasoline, distributed electricity generation, electricity industry restructuring, and carbon dioxide emissions. Also analyzes energy market trends. The analysis in this report focuses primarily on a reference case and four other cases that assume higher and lower economic growth and higher and lower world oil prices than in the reference case. Tables.

Presents forecasts of energy supply, demand, and prices through 2020. The report begins with an "Overview". The next section, "Legislation and Regulations," describes the assumptions made with regard to laws that affect energy markets and discusses evolving legislative and regulatory issues. "Issues in Focus" discusses current energy issues -- appliance standards, gasoline and diesel fuel standards, natural gas industry expansion, competitive electricity pricing, renewable portfolio standards, and carbon emissions. It is followed by the analysis of energy market trends. Extensive charts, tables, and graphs.