1. Regional Energy Consumption Statistics
Pedro Ferreira
Eurostat

2. Outline of my talk The need for regional energy and environment data
Collecting regional energy consumption data
State of play
Environment data

3. The need for regional data
The debate about energy efficiency, renewable types of energy, climate changes, environment, carbon emissions is growing in importance
Regions are not similar in their energy efficiency, nor in their energy needs, nor in their carbon emissions
Energy prices affect regions in different ways due to varying levels of demand and different climate
The Commission needs energy consumption data and environment indicators at a regional level in order to monitor its policies

4. Collecting regional energy data
Collecting regional energy consumption data is a two phase process:
Check feasibility
If feasible, develop the process of collecting, compiling and disseminating the data

5. Checking the feasibility for energy data
The Working Group “Energy Statistics Committee” met in June in Luxembourg
In this meeting, the Member States were asked to reply about their regional data availability
Eurostat asked for consumption data broken by type of energy and type of users for NUTS level 2 regions

6. State of play…
Only 3 Member States have not yet replied: Belgium, Germany and Ireland
Hungary was considered “not feasible” but some regional data is available
The coverage regarding the number of regions and regarding the total EU-27 energy consumption will be presented

7. Coverage by region (1) Out of the 268 NUTS level 2 regions:
There is data for 155 regions (58%)
There is no data for 59 regions (22%)
We are still waiting for the reply for 54 regions (20%)
Coverage in the best scenario: 78%
Coverage in the worse scenario: 58%

8. Coverage by region (2)

9. Coverage by consumption (1)
Using the energy consumption data for 2005:
54% of regional consumption is covered
23% is not covered
We are still waiting for the remaining 23%
Coverage in the best scenario: 77%
Coverage in the worse scenario: 54%

10. Coverage by region (2)

11. First conclusions
The reply of Germany will set the “optimistic level”, since it’s the biggest country regarding the number of regions and energy consumption
There is good reason to continue with this project, since the creation of regional energy consumption data is possible
Some countries will have to start a new data collection to complete the objective

12. Identified problems
In some countries the data is spread over several institutes
It is crucial that the RESCO’s centralize the data flow
There are some minor issues like incomplete data that should be tackled on a case by case basis

13. Environment
Regional energy consumption should not be dissociated from the environmental implications
It is also crucial to start a discussion regarding regional environment data
Proposals for regional environment indicators are more than welcome
Regional Energy and Regional Environment data has to be available in a near future

14. Thank you for your attention!