Statistical method for monitoring energy consumption in service sectors and households
Hans Pouwelse
Statistics Netherlands jpwe@cbs.nl
October 24, 2012

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Situation energy statistics in the Netherlands in
2005
Positive: energy production sector and manufacturing industries (‘the heavy users’)
• solid production process, based on surveys, high response rates, intensive contact with key companies
• statistical results of good quality and timeliness
• results basis for energy balance sheets
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Background
Situation energy statistics in the Netherlands in
2005
Negative: Other sectors (households, service sectors, etc. )
• response rates, quality response and statistical results poor and decreasing
• irregular statistical coverage, only once every 3 to 5 years
• poor quality external information (households, agriculture)
• lack of finance and staff capacity to improve the shortcomings with traditional questionnaires
But:
• increasing demand
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Promising alternative ask energy companies for their files with individual client information
The idea is simple:
 Energy companies have all the necessary information they need to send bills to their individual clients, including the supplied amounts of energy
- 8 mln electricity connections
- 7 mln gas connections
 Collecting this individual client information is much more efficient and less costly than asking many individual consumers
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 Only a limited number of respondents have to be bothered (general policy in the Netherlands to minimize the response burden)
 Less costly and more efficient
 Increasing quality statistical results
(An important source of errors can be avoided: energy consumers no longer have to identify their electricity and gas consumption on annual basis from the information they receive from their energy supplier)
 Data on energy consumption can be published for each economic activity (NACE-code) and households annually
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Steps forward (1)
Legal obligation
 Energy companies will not cooperate on a voluntary basis
 Legal obligation is necessary
 Realised in 2004 as modification of the Dutch statistical law
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Steps forward (2) which companies: energy suppliers or network operators?
 Energy suppliers :
- more information (quantities, prices, costs, taxes)
- more and varying number of companies
- varying number of clients/connections per company (switching allowed)
 Network operators:
- only quantities electricity and natural gas
- only few and stable number of companies (14, all both electricity and gas)
- stable number of clients/connections
Choice: Network operators
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Steps forward (3)
Identify type of client: house hold or business? and type of business (NACE code)?
 Records contain address data
 Linking to other data:
- home register (7 mln dwellings)
- general business register (1 mln records)
- other administrative data
(register real estate appraisal, Dutch land use register, GIS-techniques and others)
 Amount of energy
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Steps forward (3)
Many problems had to be solved:
 house number extension (standardisation)
 district heating, central heating bloc of flats
 combined dwellings/business (one connection)
 multiple connections per company (establishments)
 multiple companies per connection (office building hired by several companies, one connection)
 And many others!
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• Regular statistics production electricity and gas consumption since 2008 (information from statistical period 2004)
• Broken down by region (municipal level)
• Broken down by housing types and household characteristics (by matching with microdata home characteristics and household characteristics)
• Microdata available for external researchers
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Gas consumption detached homes
2010
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Electricity consumption detached homes
2010
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6.000
5.000
4.000
3.000
2.000
1.000
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Electricity (kWh)
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Gas (m3)
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3 500
3 000
2 500
2 000
1 500
1 000
500
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Detached
Semi-detached
Corner house
Rowhouse
Apartment
Building period
1960-1980
Apartment
Rowhouse
Corner house
Semi-detached
Detached
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6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0 detached
Semi detached
Corner house
Row house apartement
Bouwperiode
1960-1980 apartement
Row house
Corner house
Semi- detached detached
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• First results published in May this year
(statistical period 2010); 2011 by the end of this year
• Separate table, integration into Dutch
Energy Balance follows as soon as possible
• Break down by region as far as possible
(confidentiality)
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Natural gas and electricity supplies to service sectors 2010 natural gas electricity
Sector/branche (SIC 2008)
(F Construction)
G Wholesale and retail trade
H Transportation and storage
I Accommodation and food serving
J Information and communication
K Financial institutions
L Renting, buying, selling real estate
M Other specialised business services mln m3
N Renting and other business support
O Public administration and services
P Education
Q Health and social work activities
R Culture, sports and recreation
S Other service activities
U Extraterritorial organisations
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1 129
314
560
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240
324
277
120
565
487
805
312
281
6 mln kWh
1 027
9 139
4 816
2 873
2 526
2 005
1 801
1 439
808
3 889
1 707
2 727
1 529
731
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Electricity consumption in the services sectors (%)
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Wholesale and retail trade
Transportation and storage
Public administration and defense
Accommodation and food service activities
Human health and social work activities
Information and communication
Financial and insurance activities
Real estate activities
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Gas consumption in the services sectors (%)
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Wholesale and retail trade
Human health and social work activities
Public administration and defense
Accommodation and food service activities
Education
Real estate activities
Transportation and storage
Arts and recreation
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• Client files of energy companies have proven to be a very good source for making energy statistics!
• Generally usable for all economic sectors with only consumtion of electricity and natural gas and no own energy production
• Cheaper, more efficient, good quality, with little administrative burden compared to traditional surveys
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