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

1. 8th Meeting of the Oslo Group Energy StatisticsBaku, 24-27 September 2013 Looking ahead InterEnerStat and Oslo Group Jean-Yves Garnier Head, IEA Energy Data Centre

2. 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)

3. Oslo Group - InterEnerStat Common Zone Avoid duplication_________ Maximise co-operation TOR/Activities of the Inter Secretariat Working Group TOR/Activities of the City Group

4. A glance at the terms of reference City Group To identify users’ needs To define scope of official energy statistics To identify and collect national and international best practices To review and contribute to the updating of UNSD handbooks and manuals on energy statistics To identify gaps in coverage (e.g. fuel types, flows) and to develop methodology to cover gaps 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 To recommend a core set of tables as minimum requirement at national and international level to satisfy major users’ needs Inter-Secretariat Working Group To make inventory of the current data collection- processing-dissemination system of the major organisations working on energy statistics 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 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 To improve coordination of energy statistics with social, economic and environmental statistics and on the international level To promote training and capacity building and coordinate the related efforts To create joint forums to promote the dialogue of statisticians and the user community To raise the profile of energy statistics and energy statisticians at all levels

5. 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. • 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

6. A quick look at membership Country A Country Z Country B Country Y InterEnerStat Oslo Group Country X Country C Country F Country D Country E OCG

7. Two Clear Requests Co-operation • Raising political awareness • Harmonisation • Joint Questionnaires • Joint Training • Common manuals • Joint quality assessment • Exchange of data Harmonisation • Methodologies • Definitions • Units • Conversion factors • Harmonised demands and questionnaires • Handbooks and manuals • Training • Quality framework

8. Priority was harmonisation of definitions 4 years of meetings, mail exchanges, rounds of discussion to arrive at an agreement

9. Complementarity OCG - InterEnerStat Avoid duplication_________ Maximise co-operation InterEnerStat Oslo City Group

10. Two Clear Requests Co-operation • Raising political awareness • Harmonisation • Joint Questionnaires • Joint Training • Common manuals • Joint quality assessment • Exchange of data Harmonisation • Methodologies • Definitions • Units • Conversion factors • Harmonised demands and questionnaires • Handbooks and manuals • Training • Quality framework    

11. Harmonisation of definitions a pre-condition to harmonised questionnaires UN OAPEC OPEC     AFREC   

12. 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

13. 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

14. Cooperation encompasses various aspects Development of energy statistics Harmonising questionnaires Launching joint initiatives Writing common manuals Exchanging statistics and information Joint training sessions

15. What’s next on the list… Co-operation • Raising political awareness • Harmonisation • Joint Questionnaires • Joint Training • Common manuals • Joint quality assessment • Exchange of data Harmonisation • Methodologies • Definitions • Units • Conversion factors • Harmonised demands and questionnaires • Handbooks and manuals • Training • Quality framework               

16. 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 biofuelsaccount 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) Thank you