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Tracking Hurricane Earl's Impact on Energy

A satellite image of Hurricane Earl Courtesy of NOAA.

While we don't yet know where Hurricane Earl will ultimately make landfall, we do know that hurricanes can have a serious impact on energy supplies and markets. Storms of this nature have the potential to not only cause electrical outages, but also affect offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refineries and other energy infrastructure.

Knowing how a storm might affect those resources is vital to any emergency preparation. That's why the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently launched a web page dedicated to providing upt to date information about Hurricane Earl from an energy perspective -- complete with an interactive map showing the location of various types of energy infrastructure that could potentially be affected by the storm.

You can find out more about what EIA is doing to help track energy disruptions on the Energy Blog.

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