Volume 3: Jamaica-Rwanda: -- Jamaica -- Japan -- Jordan -- Joule, James -- K: -- Kansas -- Kazakhstan -- Kentucky -- Kenya -- Kinetic energy -- Kirbati -- Korea, North -- Korea, South -- Kuwait -- Kyoto protocol -- Kyrgyzstan -- L: -- Landfill gas -- Laos -- Latvia -- Leadership in Energy and Environmental design -- Lebanon -- Lesotho -- Levitation -- Liberia -- Libya -- Liechtenstein -- Life-cycle analysis -- Lighting -- Lithuania -- Louisiana -- Lovins, Amory -- Luxembourg -- M: -- Macedonia -- Madagascar -- Maine -- Malawi -- Malaysia -- Maldives -- Mali -- Malta -- Manufactured gas -- Marcellus shale -- Marshal Islands -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Mauritania -- Mauritius -- Mayer, Julius Robert von -- Meitner, Lise -- Methane -- Mexico -- Michigan -- Microhydropower -- Micronesia -- Minnesota -- Mississippi -- Missouri -- Moldova -- Monaco -- Mongolia -- Montana -- Morgan, JP -- Morocco -- Mountaintop removal mining -- Mozambique -- Municipal utilities -- Myanmar -- N: -- Namibia -- Nationalization -- Natural energy flows -- Natural gas -- Natural gas storage -- Nauru -- Nebraska -- Nepal -- Net metering -- Netherlands -- Nevada -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- New Mexico -- New York -- New Zealand -- Nicaragua -- Niger -- Nigeria -- Nitrogen oxides -- Nonpoint source pollution -- Nonrenewable energy resources -- North American Electric Reliability Corporation -- North Carolina -- North Dakota -- Norway -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear fusion -- Nuclear power -- O: -- Offshore drilling -- Ohio -- Oil and gas pipelines -- Oil and natural gas drilling -- Oil and petroleum -- Oil market and price -- Oil sands -- Oil sands -- Oil shale's -- Oil spills -- Oklahoma -- Oman -- Oregon -- Organization of petroleum exporting countries -- Orsted, Hans Christian -- Otto, Nikolaus -- P: -- Pakistan -- Palau -- Palestine -- Panama -- Papua New Guinea -- Paraguay -- Parsons, Charles -- Peat -- Pennsylvania -- Peru -- Petroviolence -- Philippines -- Photovoltaics -- Pickens, T Boone -- Pinchot, Gifford -- Plug-in hybrid vehicles -- Poland -- Portugal -- Potential energy -- Power and power plants -- Public relations -- Public transportation -- Public utilities -- Public Utility Holding Company Act Of 1935 -- Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 -- Q: -- Qatar -- R: -- Radiation -- Radiative forcing -- Rankine, William -- Recycling -- Refining -- Refuse -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative -- Regulation -- Renewable energy credits -- Renewable energy portfolio -- Renewable energy resources -- Rhode Island -- Risk assessment -- Risk management -- Rockefeller, John D -- Romania -- Rotational energy -- Rural electrification -- Russia -- Rwanda.

This academic, multi-author reference work serves as a general and non-technical resource for students and teachers to understand the importance of energy; to appreciate the influence of energy on societies around the world; to learn the history of energy; and to initiate educational discussion brought forth by the specific social and topical articles presented in the work.