The California Energy Database (Caleb) enables economists, analysts, policy makers and other non-technical professionals to quickly access and view California energy data from different perspectives. Caleb is a multidimensional database which uses a pivot table as it's primary interface. Caleb's pivoting capabilities make it easy to switch dimensions and manipulate the data according to the perspective required. Any of its four dimensions can appear in column or in row. The display can be filtered by any of the display elements.
Caleb contains four dimensions: Products, Flow, Time and Units. Data has been collected in physical unit (PU) only; the data are then converted directly in the database in different units. In total, the database contains 6 units (PU, BTU, TJ, TOE, CO2 and Carbon), 35 products (ie materials), 140 flows (aka processes) and currently 12 years (from 1990 to 2002).
Caleb was created as part of a collaboration between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the California Energy Commission (CEC).
