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Taking the Energy Indicators Work Forward
 
Location and date(s) of workshop:
IEA, Paris: 27 April 2006
   
Organiser(s): IEA
   
Contact(s):
   

Background:

Aims: This workshop will focus on: 1) update of recent indicator activities and 2) consider future work, including activities under the IEA G8 Programme of Work.

Data collection and the use of indicators to aid energy efficiency decision making will be discussed. The workshop will conclude with a roundtable discussion on how to take the IEA energy indicator project forward.

Target audience: Participants will include energy efficiency decision makers, officials responsible for collection and reporting of energy data and statistics and energy policy analysts in both IEA Member and non-Member countries.

An agenda will be made available shortly.

 
Links to relevant documents:
Agenda

 
Proceedings:

Welcome; William Ramsay (Deputy Executive Director, IEA)

The Gleneagles plan of action
Neil Hirst (IEA)

Background and overview – Fridtjof Unander (IEA)

Session 1: Status and Plan for Future Work on IEA Energy Indicators
Chair: Jean-Yves Garnier (IEA)

Update on status and future work
Fridtjof Unander (IEA)

Session 2: Energy indicators: A global challenge
Chair: Jayant Sathaye (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)

The ODYSSEE project
Didier Bosseboeuf (ADEME)

Energy indicators for sustainable development guidelines and methodologies
Alan McDonald (IAEA)

Presentation from China
Dr. Zhou Fuqiu (Energy Research Institute)

Session 3: Collecting the Right Data

Chair: Robert Tromop (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority)

Major challenges faced in data collection:
- Non-OECD countries – APEC’s perspective
Shigeru Kimura (APEC)

Major challenges faced in data collection:
- OECD countries;
- Data quality and harmonization problems – comparability of results, a challenge to all.
Jean-Yves Garnier (IEA)

What organisations can do to help countries?
What countries can do to help organisations?

Michel Francoeur (IEA)

Session 4: Experiences with Indicators for Energy Efficiency Policy Analysis
Chair: Egil Ofverholm (Swedish Energy Agency)

An instrument to better inform the policy decision process
Rick Bradley (IEA)

Canada - Data, Indicators, Monitoring, Reporting
Charles Spelay (Natural Resources Canada)

Japan
Ken Watanabe (Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI)

Energy Intensity in the US Economy: A New System of Energy Intensity Indicators
Jeffery Dowd (U.S. Department of Energy)

New Zealand
Robert Tromop (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority)

Netherlands – Indicators and policy information needs
Piet Boonekamp (Energy Research Centre Netherlands)

United Kingdom
Iain MacLeay (Department of Trade and Industry)

Session 5: Future Work by Sector
Chair: Robert Dixon (IEA)

Industry
Dolf Gielen (IEA)

Buildings
Jens Laustsen (IEA)

Transport
Pierpaolo Cazzola (IEA)


Session 6: Roundtable discussion

Moving forward with IEA’s work on Energy Indicators
Chair: Robert Dixon(IEA)