By providing insights into how energy is produced, transformed and used, energy statistics and balances constitute the basic description of the energy system in a country. They are a cornerstone for tracking clean energy transitions and are also essential for monitoring the broader impacts of energy use – including the implications for energy security. They are also critical for measuring progress toward key targets, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7: ensuring access to clean and affordable energy.
This guidebook offers a comprehensive framework for national institutions to assess existing national energy information systems and plan their development (“roadmap”). The framework is structured around three key pillars – PLAN, SETUP, and TRACK – which are in turn broken down into a total of nine steps. Based on broad consultations with national data providers, the guidebook also identifies best practices, distinguishing between the “low-hanging fruit” – practices that are relatively quick to adopt at little or no cost – and “medium-term goals” that require more planning.
The IEA guidebook is released along with an accompanying Microsoft Excel-based tool, which serves not only to assess the national energy system but also as a comprehensive resource for strategic action planning. It enables countries to understand the status of their national energy system and develop a tailored action plan based on identified priority areas.
Through this guidebook, the International Energy Agency (IEA) aims at assisting countries in the continued development of their national energy information systems, regardless of their maturity level. The framework is expected to be used as a tool to facilitate the development of strategic action plans and resource allocation to strengthen national energy data capacities – key elements of effective energy transition policies.
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Table of Contents
- Designing an Energy Statistics Roadmap -1
- Abstract 3
- Acknowledgements, contributors and credits 4
- Table of contents 6
- Executive summary 7
- Introduction 10
- Energy transitions require sound data capacities 10
- Background 10
- How this guide was developed 10
- Aims and scope 11
- Key energy data 12
- Energy supply 13
- Energy demand 13
- Economic activity 14
- Tracking energy transitions 15
- Sustainable development goals 15
- International climate reporting 16
- National sectoral energy policies 17
- Energy planning 19
- Enhancing national data capacities 20
- Long-term enablers 20
- Political will and awareness 21
- Staff and institutional capacity and stability 21
- Multilateral collaboration both at national and international level 22
- A framework for developing national energy statistics 22
- Strengthening the national energy data system 24
- How to use the assessment framework 26
- PLAN – The strategic dimension 27
- Data needs and users 27
- Strategy development 30
- Funding mechanisms 33
- SETUP – Operational dimension 37
- Legal framework 37
- Institutional arrangements 39
- Exchanging data between stakeholders 42
- Human, financial and technical resources 44
- Human resources 45
- Technical resources 46
- Financial resources 47
- TRACK – Data processes 50
- Data collection, methodologies and quality verification 50
- Data collection 51
- Survey development 55
- Methodologies and standards 57
- Ensuring data quality 60
- Completeness 60
- Consistency 63
- Data management and innovation 65
- Revamping national energy information systems 65
- Innovation in energy statistics and digitisation 67
- Data access and dissemination 71
- Data should be easy to access and simple to use 71
- Communication and dissemination of energy data 73
- Conclusion 78
- Annexes 80
- Annex – Country consultation summary 80
- Responses from Brazil 80
- Responses from Canada 86
- Responses from Ethiopia 90
- Responses from Finland 92
- Responses from Kenya 97
- Responses from Morocco 99
- Responses from Netherlands 104
- Responses from Senegal 107
- Responses from United Kingdom 109
- Responses from Estonia 111
- Abbreviations and acronyms 114
