Overview of new and renewable energy data availability, classifications

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Overview of new and renewable energy data
availability, classifications
1st meeting of the Oslo Group on Energy
Statistics 6 8 February 2006, Oslo
Károly Kovács, Chief, Energy Statistics Section,
United Nations Statistics Division
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Energy challanges

• World energy demand is increasing
• Energy related environmental impacts continue to
  grow
• Access to affordable energy is
• 2.4 billion people are without clean, safe
  cooking fuel and depend on traditional biomass
• 1.6 billion people are without electricity

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Energy consumption by fuel type, 1980 and 2002
1980
2002

• Source EIA International Energy Outlook 2004

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World Primary Energy Consumption by Fuel Type,
1970-2025
Source EIA, International Energy Outlook 2004
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Energy challanges

• The World Summit on Sustainable Development
  (Johannesburg, 2002), the International
  Conference for Renewable Energy (Bonn, 2004)
  renewable energy as a critical component for
  poverty alleviation and for sustainable
  development
• Beijing International Renewable Energy Conference
  promotion of renewable energy for improving
  access to energy services, increasing job
  opportunities, improving air quality, public
  health, enhancing energy security and offering a
  new paradigm for international cooperation

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New and renewable energy

• Refers to energy resources which are naturally
  replenished
• Wind,
• Solar,
• Hydropower,
• Biomass,
• Geothermal energy
• Ocean energy
• Renewable energy is mainly produced and used
  domestically

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Renewable Energy Contribution to the Global
Primary Energy in 2004

• Source E. Martiono Renewables 2005 Global
  Status Report

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New and renewable energy current developments

• By the end of 2004, renewable energy supplies 17
  per cent of the total primary energy.
• Traditional biomass (for cooking and heating) is
  growing just slowly as it is used more
  efficiently or replaced by more modern energy
  sources
• Large hydropower is growing slowly
• New renewables (small hydro, modern biomass,
  wind, solar, geothermal and biofuel) are growing
  very rapidly.

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Average Annual Growth Rates of Renewable Energy
Capacity, 20002004
Source E. Martiono Renewables 2005 Global
Status Report
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Cost of electricity production from different
resources (cent/kWh) estimate

• Source C. Falvin, Worldwatch Institute,
  presented at the World Renewable Energy Forum,
  Bonn, May 30, 2004.

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New and renewable energy investments

• Modern applications of renewable energy have
  grown steadily over the past three decades
• The investment to developing renewable energy
  capacities in countries is growing rapidly (from
  6 billion in 1995 to 30 billion in 2004)
• Annual investment in renewable energy,
  1995-2004

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Resource potential

• Renewable resource potentials exceeds todays
  world energy consumptions
• Estimated renewable energy source
  potentials

Source NREL
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Renewable energy policies and targets

• Policy promotions/policy targets exist in 50
  countries.
• Most of them are targeting share of renewable
  energy in the electricity generation (typically 5
  30 per cent)

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Comparison of Renewable Energy Definitions

• Product details are different
• Definitions are different if they exist
• Breakdown differences
• Correspondence with internationally recognized
  classifications is not sufficient if exists

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Comparison of Renewable Energy DefinitionsSample
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Comparison of Renewable Energy Definitions Sample
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Availability of Renewable Energy Information

• Annual data is available for different time
  period
• Special editions are available general or by the
  type of the renewable energy
• Coverage is member countries

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Availability of Renewable Energy Information
Sample
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Recommendations

• Harmonization of definitions to enhance
  comparability on the international level
• Developing correspondence for each product to
  enhance data collection on the country level and
  comparability of data on the international level
• Collecting best practices in designing and
  executing data collection of renewables
  producing statistics on renewables