Subcategories - Energy, Fuel, Power Sources
- Mexico Controls Huge Leak in Offshore Oil Well
- Norway Begins First Reactor to Use Wave Energy
- Offshore Oil Well Blows near Santa Barbara, California
- An Offshore Oil Well Blows Out Near Santa Barbara, California
- Oil Is Discovered in Venezuela
- Oil Tankers Collide near Tobago
- Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Meets for the First Time
- Pennzoil Sues Texaco for Interfering in Getty Oil Deal
- Power Failure Blacks Out New York City and the Northeast
- Public Utilities Regulatory Act Promotes Renewable Energy
- Researchers Develop an Integrated Solar Energy System
- Researchers Generate Nuclear Energy on Tabletop
- Richard Trevithick
- Rudolf Diesel
- Scenic Hudson Case Stops Storm King Power Plant
- Solar One, the Prototype Power Tower, Begins Operation
- A Soviet Power Plant Begins an Era of Nuclear Energy
- The Soviet Union Opens a Tidal Power Station
- Soviets Begin Construction of Siberian Gas Pipeline
- The St. Lawrence Seaway Is Completed
- Sun Day Celebration Promotes Solar Energy
- Supertankers Begin Transporting Oil
- A Tank Collapse Releases Fuel into the Monongahela River
- The Teapot Dome Scandal Prompts Reforms in the Oil Industry
- The Three Mile Island Accident Prompts Nuclear Industry Reforms
- The Three Mile Island Accident Prompts Reforms in Nuclear Power
- The Torrey Canyon Runs Aground
- The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Opens
- The U.S. Supreme Court Decides to Break Up Standard Oil
- The United States Funds Solar Energy Research
- The United States Opens the First Commercial Nuclear Power Plant
- The United States Plans to Cut Dependence on Foreign Oil
- Work Begins on the Grand Coulee Dam
- The World’s First Breeder Reactor Produces Electricity While Generating New Fuel
- The World’s First Nuclear Reactor Is Activated
