Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development

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Indicators for Sustainable Energy Development

• International Atomic Energy Agency and
  International Energy Agency 2001

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IEA and Energy Indicators Background Motivation

• IEA Secretariat has been working with energy
  indiactors for the last four years
• Motivated by the need for more disaggregated
  measures than E/GDP to describe development of
  energy efficiency and CO2 emissions
• Disaggregated indicators have become an important
  element in the IEAs capacity to analyse energy
  efficiency and climate policies
• Collaboration with EU and APEC energy indicator
  projects to ensure wide transparency

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Economic Dimension Economic Sector Indirect
Driving Force Indicator Example Car-km and
GDP/Capita
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Economic Dimension Energy Sector Indirect
Driving Force Indicator Example Energy
Intensity for Cars
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Economic Dimension State Indicator decomposed
into Indirect DF Example Final energy use in
Japan Decomposed by sector 1973-1995
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Environmental DimensionDirect DF decomposed into
Indirect DF Example Danish CO2 Emissions
Decomposed
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What data are needed? ISED are typically
constructed from data on

• Energy production levels
• Primary energy carries, electricity production,
  etc.
• Energy consumption levels
• By important sectors and end-uses
• Human and economic activity levels
• Representing activities driving demand for energy
  services in sectors and end-uses
• Energy prices and expenses
• Prices by fuels, energy import expenses,
  investments in energy sector, etc.
• Environmental impacts
• Emissions, water discharges, nuclear waste
  generation, etc.

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Data requirements Example Data for Energy
Consumption Indicators

• Energy consumption levels
• Residential energy uses like space heating and
  appliances
• Manufacturing key sectors
• Transport travel and freight
• Commercial/service energy uses
• Human and economic activity levels
• Residential Home area, population, appliance
  ownership
• Manufacturing sectors Value added
• Transport person-km traveled, ton-km hauled
• Commercial/service Value added, building area
• gt Allows for constructing energy intensity
  indicators at disaggregated levels

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Constructing ISEDThe data challenge

• Time series with consistent quality data are
  crucial for the usefulness of ISED
• Internationally consistent data are important to
  allow for comparisons of trends among countries
• However
• the amount of data needed for ISED is
  significant, and
• internationally consistent and disaggregated data
  needed for ISED are often lacking, especially in
  non-OECD countries
• gt Need for
• coordination of data reporting among countries
• capacity building in countries lacking resources

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Capacity Building for Consistent Indicators
Example IEA-India Indicator project

• Objective Build capacity among relevant Indian
  institutions to collect, report and use energy
  indicators
• First phase of project Assessment of energy data
  situation with regard to
• National institutional aspects
• Compliance with international standards
• Improved reporting of data
• Coordination challenge Several different
  institutions involved in data collection and
  reporting, no central coordinating body
• Next phase Work with relevant institutions to
  address data quality issues and to improve
  coordination of data reporting

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Future IAEA-IEA collaboration on
ISEDCoordination of data reporting

• Build on IAEA and IEA existing activities to
  collect energy data for Member and non-Member
  countries
• Assess availability of internationally consistent
  data through compiling historical time series on
  ISED for various countries
• Further refine ISED methodology to fit data
  availability
• Establish additional questionnaires to collect
  data not available through regular IAEA/IEA data
  collection procedures
• Organise workshops to discuss harmonisation of
  national definitions and methodologies

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Future IAEA-IEA collaboration on ISEDCapacity
Building

• Develop handbook for construction and use of ISED
  
• Organise training workshops focusing on
• ISED methodology issues
• Collection procedures relevant for ISED data
• Ensuring compliance with international standards
  for energy statistics
• Use of ISED as policy tools
• The training should result in
• Enhanced decision making capability
• Improved reporting of quality data to
  international databases