Transcript Looking Ahead - InterEnerStat and Oslo Group

8th Meeting of the Oslo Group Energy Statistics
Baku, 24-27 September 2013
Looking ahead
InterEnerStat and Oslo Group
Jean-Yves Garnier
Head, IEA Energy Data Centre
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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)
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Oslo Group - InterEnerStat
Common Zone
Avoid duplication
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Maximise co-operation
TOR/Activities of
the City Group
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TOR/Activities of the
Inter Secretariat Working Group
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A glance at the terms of reference
City Group
1)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
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Inter-Secretariat Working Group
1)To make inventory of the current data collectionprocessing-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
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Cooperation between Organisations
Joining forces
Each organisation has strengths and weaknesses
Organisations have particular areas of expertise
Organisations, like countries, face resources cuts
Same objective: better energy statistics
Raising the profile of energy statistics and statisticians
Energy 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
Reduce the reporting burden passed to countries
Only 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.
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Improve global transparency
Reduce the risks of differences between data released by various organisations
Same information collected by all countries
Potential reduction of the processing work for organisations
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A quick look at membership
Country Z
Country A
Country B
Country Y
InterEnerStat
Oslo Group
Country X
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Country C
Country F
OCG
Country D
Country E
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Two Clear Requests
Harmonisation
Co-operation
 Methodologies
 Raising political
awareness
 Definitions
 Units
 Harmonisation
 Conversion factors
 Joint Questionnaires
 Harmonised demands
and questionnaires
 Joint Training
 Handbooks and manuals
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 Training
 Common manuals
 Joint quality assessment
 Exchange of data
 Quality framework
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Priority was harmonisation of definitions
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Complementarity OCG - InterEnerStat
Avoid duplication
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Maximise co-operation
Oslo City Group
InterEnerStat
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Two Clear Requests
Harmonisation
Co-operation
 Methodologies
 Raising political
awareness
 Definitions
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 Harmonisation
 Units
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 Conversion factors
 Joint Questionnaires
 Harmonised demands
and questionnaires
 Joint Training
 Handbooks and manuals
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 Training
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 Common manuals
 Joint quality assessment
 Exchange of data
 Quality framework
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Harmonisation of definitions a pre-condition
to harmonised questionnaires
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UN
AFREC
OAPEC
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OPEC
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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
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Why a need for more international cooperation
Example: cooperation
with AFREC
The payback on cooperation with
AFREC was very high:
the first edition of the
Africa Energy Statistics book
A tailor made questionnaire for
Africa based on the same logics
as the 5 joint IEA-Eurostat-UNECE
questionnaires
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Cooperation encompasses various aspects
Development of energy statistics
Harmonising questionnaires
Launching joint initiatives
Writing common manuals
Exchanging statistics and information
Joint training sessions
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What’s next on the list…
Co-operation
Harmonisation
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 Harmonisation
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 Raising political
awareness
 Methodologies 
 Definitions
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 Units 
 Conversion factors 
 Joint Questionnaires 
 Harmonised demands 
and questionnaires
 Joint Training 
 Handbooks and manuals
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 Training 
 Quality framework 
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 Common manuals
 Joint quality assessment 
 Exchange of data 
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Some thoughts for future activities
Harmonisation of training material and common training sessions
seem to be a top priority for many organisations.
Joint training sessions and common material already happen/exist:
JODI training sessions, UNSD-IEA, AFREC-IEA, JODI, etc.
InterEnerStat meeting on training at the IEA in December 2012:
a need to follow it up on the topic (internet based, etc.)
A need for a manual specific topics of methodology: for instance,
energy balances (on the radar screen of Eurostat)
A need of harmonised guidelines on data quality checking
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.
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)
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Thank you
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