SEEA-Energy

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SEEA-Energy

• Alessandra Alfieri
• Expert Group Meeting on Energy Statistics

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SEEA-Energy and other UNSD activities
ISIC, CPC, HS
SNA

SEEA
SEEA-E
SEEAW
TSA
IRWS
IRIS
IRTourism

IRES
Compilation guidelines
Compilation guidelines
ESCM
Questionnaire
Data
Data
Data
Data quality assessment
Best practices/knowledge base
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Why an accounting approach?

• Provides added value
• Integrates basic statistics from different
  sources and links it with other types of
  statistics
• Improves statistical quality by guaranteeing
  consistency (checks and balances)
• Provides policy-makers with coherent time series
  of data, indicators and descriptive statistics
  for scenario modeling
• Implicitly defines ownership and hence
  responsibility for environmental impacts

policy relevance
SEEA-Energy
IRES
Inter-linkages - underlying causes
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Why SEEA-Energy?

• Indicators
• - Intensity/productivity indicators
• - Decoupling indicators
• - Energy dependency from imports
• Input-output analysis
• - Decomposition analysis
• - Embedded carbon in products
• Accounts
• - Part of integrated framework ? comparison
  macro-economic parameters,
  international comparibility etc.
• - Link physical data with economic data taxes,
  subsidies
• - Produce data for National Accounts
• - Compilation of air emission accounts

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Integration of energy statistics, balances and
accounts
Basic data
Energy balances
Price information Production accounts
Simplified physical supply and use tables
Monetary supply and use tables
National Accounts
Energy accounts (physical and monetary)
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Use and usefulness of SEEA-Energy

• Low cost extension of energy statistics and
  balances
• Complete and coherent presentation of energy
  issues with focus on economic activities
• Accounting principles with cheks and balances
  leads to completeness and improved quality
• Consistency across time and countries
• Basis for economic-energy analysis and modelling
• Basis for (SEEA-) emissions accounts
• Basis for consistent indicators

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Main areas of SEEA-Energy

• Stock accounts (asset accounts) in physical and
  monetary units
• Flow accounts in the form of supply and use
  tables for energy products in physical and
  monetary units
• Hybrid accounts combining physical and monetary
  accounts
• Monetary 2008 SNA type accounts for economic
  activities and transfers related specifically to
  energy extraction, energy production and energy
  use
• Applications of the energy accounts

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SEEA-Energy - Chapters

• Chapter 1 2 Introduction and Framework
• Chapter 3 Physical asset accounts
• Chapter 4 Monetary asset accounts
• Chapter 5 Physical flow accounts
• Chapter 6 Monetary and hybrid flow accounts
• Chapter 7 Applications

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5.3 Supply (full table)
Mass/volume and Joules
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5.4 Use (full table)
Mass/volume and Joules
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Net energy consumption and GDP
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Energy intensity of industries
Index 1990 100
Agriculture
Chemical sector
Transport
Services
Dutch economy
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SEEA-Energy vs. Energy Statistics
Danish Energy Use GJ per million DKK GDP
SEEA-Energy (residence principle)
Energy statistics (territory principle)
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Management of wealth
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Differences between accounts and balances

• Conceptual
• Territory vs. Residence (important only for some
  countries)
• Follows national accounts structure including
  ISIC, CPC/SIEC
• Losses
• Statistical difference
• Terminology
• Supply, final demand, stocks, etc.
• Presentation
• By economic activities
• Physical and monetary (and hybrid)
• But
• - We should focus on the links between the
  SEEA-Energy and the data items

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IRES Chapter 11- what next?

• Revise the chapter to reflect the changes in
  SEEA-Energy (e.g. emission accounts no longer
  included)
• Add a section on the usefulness of the
  SEEA-Energy
• Terminology explain difference in terminology
  with the balances and why it should be maintained
• Data items
• Taxes on production and products (need both)
• Monetary data items on production, consumption,
  export and imports
• Add text saying that the accounts should be
  ideally compiled from the basic data rather than
  from the balances
• Add Annex explaing the links between the data
  items and standard tables

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SEEA-Energy - What next?

• So far
• Part of UNSD work programme
• The main part of the drafting has been done but
  needs to
• Reflect changes made in IRES, in particular SIEC
• Harmonize classification of resources and SIEC?
• Issue monetary and physical flow may use
  different classifications
• Remaining work
• Finish drafting (end December 2010)
• Expert Group Meeting on Energy Accounts and
  Statistics (Jan 2011)
• World-wide consultation (Feb. March 2011)
• Adoption by the UN Statistical Commission
• Implementation in countries!

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• Thank you!