Updating Energy Infrastructure, Coal Resource, and Coal Information Websites

The Kentucky Geological Survey developed two internet map websites through previous awards from the Coal Education Grant program. The first, Kentucky Energy Infrastructure, was completed in June of 2010. Its purpose is to provide information about facilities that produce, process, transport, and utilize coal. The second, Kentucky Coal Resource Information, was completed in 2012. Both sites have time-sensitive content that has not been updated since the original development. This project would update both sites with current information and add new content to enhance their use. KGS also maintains a very popular website with information about coal—its formation, uses, and properties, as well as information about mining and processing of coal. Most of the information on coal use focuses on traditional uses, and new content is needed to explain alternative uses for coal, including metallurgical products and extraction of beneficial materials from coal and coal combustion by-products. This project will add this new content as well as update older illustrations currently on the site. The end products will be three, up-to-date and complimentary websites with educational materials about coal resources.