Energy use by municipality (discontinued), 2007-2008

Municipal.

Yearly. Published a little more than a year after the reference period. For the last year the figures are preliminary.

Regional energy statistics reported to Eurostat, as a part of REQ - Regional Environmental Questionnaire.

Oracle and Excel.

From the reference year 2005 energy statistics by municipality has been published as official statistics with all the energy commodities included. The statistics is financed by the ordinary budged. The statistics has earlier been published in the publication SSBmagasinet, with figures for the reference years 1991, 1995, 2000, 2004 and 2005.

Internally the statistics is used in the statistics for the emission of climate gases. Externally the statistics is used in local energy reports in the municipalities. Norwegian Water and Energy Directorate is also an important user of the statistics.

The figures presented in the municipality statistics differs a little from figures in other statistics, like the energy balances and the electricity statistics. There are several reasons for this. Energy use outside one half nautical mile from the harbors and more than 100 meters up in the air are not included. Also, the use of electricity in the manufacturing industries has different sources in the two statistics energy in the manufacturing industries and electricity statistics. The first one use data from the demand side while the second use data from the supply side. The statistics for energy by municipality use data from statistics energy in the manufacturing industries.

In the statistics for energy by municipality energy use in the energy sectors is included, while this is not included in the figures for net end use of energy in the energy balance.

For energy bearers causing climate gas emissions, the data from this statistics is used in the emissions to air statistics.

Not relevant.

Not relevant.

The population includes all the users of energy on shore in Norway, inclusive use of energy in the energy sectors but exclusive use of energy products for non-energy purposes.

Use of energy outside one half nautical mile outside the harbors and more than 100 meters up in the air is not included. One exception from this is use of electricity offshore connected with cables from the mainland.

Use of energy in the energy sectors includes district heating plants, power plants, CHP, oil refineries and installations for reception of oil and gas. Use of energy in the energy sectors is included in "Industry and mining etc.".

The yearly statistics for the industrial energy use is used as a source for energy use in the manufacturing and mining industries. The population is all active companies within manufacturing and mining. Data from a sample of companies is collected. For the other companies estimations are made. The population consists of about 22 000 companies.

The yearly electricity statistics, with data from all the grid companies in Norway, is used as a data source for the use of electricity other than in the manufacturing industries.

Sales statistics of petroleum products and statistics for use of wood are also used to estimate figures for use of these energy commodities for consumers other than the manufacturing industries.

For natural gas the statistics for domestic use of natural gas is used, and the data is delivered by municipality.

See 3.2.

Controls of max/min-values for each of the energy commodities and controls of max/min-values of energy use per capita. Large changes from one year to the next are also controlled.

Municipal figures for oil products and bio fuels (except wood) are partly estimated based on national figures in the Energy accounts. Some of the figures are therefore relatively uncertain. The quality of these estimations vary from municipality to municipality and between consumer groups.

For companies outside the sample in the statistics for the manufacturing industries, figures are estimated based on account statistics and yearly structural statistics. Use of electricity outside the manufacturing industries is based on totals from all the electricity companies in Norway who report these figures by municipality. All the domestic use of natural gas is reported by municipality, and no estimations are necessary.

For some of the municipalities large companies contributes to a large part of the energy use. Still, the figures are not seen to make any harm for the companies as long only quantities are published and no values leading to price information.

Statistic Norway (SSB) has calculated use of fossil fuels, garbage and bio energy used for stationary and mobile use in Norwegian municipalities in 1991, 1995, 2000, 2004 and 2005. For the reference year 2004 relatively aggregate electricity figures was included for the first time. From the reference year 2005 it is published more detailed statistics covering all the energy bearers in common tables.