© OECD/IEA 2013 8 th Meeting of the Oslo Group Energy Statistics Baku, 24-27 September 2013 Looking ahead InterEnerStat and Oslo Group Jean-Yves Garnier

© OECD/IEA 2013

8th Meeting of the Oslo Group Energy StatisticsBaku, 24-27 September 2013

Looking ahead

InterEnerStat and Oslo Group

Jean-Yves GarnierHead, IEA Energy Data Centre

© OECD/IEA 2013 © OECD/IEA, 2010

A short background

At the 36th Session of the UN Statistical Commission, energy was in the spotlight of the Commission

This led to the Ad-hoc Energy Group Meeting on 23-25 May 2005 organised by UNSD in New York

This subsequently led to the recommendation to establish:A City Group (the Oslo City Group)

An Inter Secretariat Working Group (InterEnerStat)


TOR/Activities of the City Group

TOR/Activities of the Inter Secretariat Working Group

Common Zone

Avoid duplication_________

Maximise co-operation



Oslo Group - InterEnerStat


A glance at the terms of reference

City Group1)To identify users’ needs

2)To define scope of official energy statistics

3)To identify and collect national and international best practices

4)To review and contribute to the updating of UNSD handbooks and manuals on energy statistics

5)To identify gaps in coverage (e.g. fuel types, flows) and to develop methodology to cover gaps

6)To adopt link or develop bridges to inter-national standard concepts and classifications in economic/ environment statistics to facilitate the integration and interface of energy statistics with other statistical systems

7)To recommend a core set of tables as minimum requirement at national and international level to satisfy major users’ needs

City Group1)To identify users’ needs

2)To define scope of official energy statistics

3)To identify and collect national and international best practices

4)To review and contribute to the updating of UNSD handbooks and manuals on energy statistics

5)To identify gaps in coverage (e.g. fuel types, flows) and to develop methodology to cover gaps

6)To adopt link or develop bridges to inter-national standard concepts and classifications in economic/ environment statistics to facilitate the integration and interface of energy statistics with other statistical systems

7)To recommend a core set of tables as minimum requirement at national and international level to satisfy major users’ needs

Inter-Secretariat Working Group1)To make inventory of the current data collection-

processing-dissemination system of the major organisations working on energy statistics

2)To reduce the reporting burden by harmonizing (when possible) data collection, data processing and dissemination by limiting duplication and/or by building links/bridges between the existing energy statistics questionnaires, concepts and methods and timetables

3)To improve distribution of the collecting/ processing work between organisations and enhance data sharing and transmission once data validation procedures have been agreed and implemented

4)To improve coordination of energy statistics with social, economic and environmental statistics and on the international level

5)To promote training and capacity building and coordinate the related efforts

6)To create joint forums to promote the dialogue of statisticians and the user community

7)To raise the profile of energy statistics and energy statisticians at all levels

Inter-Secretariat Working Group1)To make inventory of the current data collection-

processing-dissemination system of the major organisations working on energy statistics

2)To reduce the reporting burden by harmonizing (when possible) data collection, data processing and dissemination by limiting duplication and/or by building links/bridges between the existing energy statistics questionnaires, concepts and methods and timetables

3)To improve distribution of the collecting/ processing work between organisations and enhance data sharing and transmission once data validation procedures have been agreed and implemented

4)To improve coordination of energy statistics with social, economic and environmental statistics and on the international level

5)To promote training and capacity building and coordinate the related efforts

6)To create joint forums to promote the dialogue of statisticians and the user community

7)To raise the profile of energy statistics and energy statisticians at all levels


Cooperation between Organisations

Joining forcesEach organisation has strengths and weaknessesOrganisations have particular areas of expertiseOrganisations, like countries, face resources cutsSame objective: better energy statistics

Raising the profile of energy statistics and statisticiansEnergy offer suffer of a deficit of image

Global initiatives draw the attention of policy makers at the highest level JODI had started to certainly contribute to raising profile of energy statistics

Improve global transparencyReduce the risks of differences between data released by various organisations

Same information collected by all countriesPotential reduction of the processing work for organisations

Reduce the reporting burden passed to countriesOnly to prepare one questionnaire instead of 3, 4, 5…Mexico: APEC, IEA/OECD, UNSD (US, Canada, Chile, Japan, …)EU countries: Eurostat, IEA/OECD, UNECE, UNSD.


A quick look at membership

Country A

Country Z Country Y

Country E

Country D

Country B

Country C

Oslo Group InterEnerStat

OCG

Country X

Country F

http://www.worldenergy.org/


Harmonisation Methodologies

Definitions

Units

Conversion factors

Harmonised demands and questionnaires

Handbooks and manuals

Training

Quality framework


Definitions

Units

Conversion factors



Training

Quality framework

Co-operation Raising political

awareness

Harmonisation

Joint Questionnaires

Joint Training

Common manuals

Joint quality assessment

Exchange of data


awareness

Harmonisation


Joint Training

Common manuals


Exchange of data

Two Clear Requests


Priority was harmonisation of definitions

4 years of meetings, mail

exchanges, rounds

of discussion to arrive at

an agreement

4 years of meetings, mail

exchanges, rounds

of discussion to arrive at

an agreement






Complementarity OCG - InterEnerStat

InterEnerStatOslo City Group



Definitions

Units

Conversion factors



Training

Quality framework


Definitions

Units

Conversion factors



Training

Quality framework


awareness

Harmonisation


Joint Training

Common manuals


Exchange of data


awareness

Harmonisation


Joint Training

Common manuals


Exchange of data

Two Clear Requests


UN

OPEC

OAPECAFREC

Harmonisation of definitions a pre-condition to harmonised questionnaires


Why a need for more international cooperation

Markets are more and more global

More work passed to statisticians

Lack of resources

Stronger together

Need international consensus (definitions, for instance)

Reduce the burden passed to countries

Raise the profile of energy statistics at the highest level


A tailor made questionnaire for Africa based on the same logics

as the 5 joint IEA-Eurostat-UNECE questionnaires

The payback on cooperation with AFREC was very high: the first edition of the

Africa Energy Statistics book

Example: cooperation with AFREC

Why a need for more international cooperation


Harmonising questionnaires

Joint training sessions

Cooperation encompasses various aspects

Writing common manuals

Exchanging statistics and information

Launching joint initiatives

Development of energy statistics



Definitions

Units

Conversion factors



Training

Quality framework


Definitions

Units

Conversion factors



Training

Quality framework


awareness

Harmonisation


Joint Training

Common manuals


Exchange of data


awareness

Harmonisation


Joint Training

Common manuals


Exchange of data

What’s next on the list…


Some thoughts for future activities

Harmonisation of training material and common training sessions seem to be a top priority for many organisations.

A need of harmonised guidelines on data quality checking

Joint training sessions and common material already happen/exist: JODI training sessions, UNSD-IEA, AFREC-IEA, JODI, etc.

Solid biofuels account for 10% of global energy supply and demand, but it could be very well 15% or 20%. Therefore the need of a manual or guidelines on good and best practices to collect these data.

A need for a manual specific topics of methodology: for instance, energy balances (on the radar screen of Eurostat)

Thank youThank you

InterEnerStat meeting on training at the IEA in December 2012: a need to follow it up on the topic (internet based, etc.)

Energy efficiency manual is also key, but IEA should have one ready by end of the year.

Important to note that Eurostat has established a brainstorming group on the future of energy statistics (EU)

Documents

© OECD/IEA 2013 8 th Meeting of the Oslo Group Energy Statistics Baku, 24-27 September 2013 Looking ahead InterEnerStat and Oslo Group Jean-Yves Garnier