Official energy statistics in Sweden Oslo City Group

Official energy statistics in Sweden Oslo City Group, 8 -11 May in Stockholm, Sweden Niklas Notstrand Senior Adviser Statistics and Methodology Swedish Energy Agency

Overview of the presentation 1. Introduction to Swedens official statistical system 2. Official statistics in Sweden 3. Map of a part of the responsibility of statistics 4. Statistical Legislation 5. Overview of some of the official energy statistical products 6. SEA vision of energy 7. Challenge for SEA energy statistics

History of Sweden official statistical system 1686 Parish Register Act 1749 Office of Tables 1858 Royal Central Statistical Office 1960 Statistics Sweden begins to assume central control over public statistics 1994 Responsibility for some areas of statistics is decentralised (Energy) 1998 Development of SEA 2002 The council for official statistics

Official Statistics in Sweden • A decentralized system • The most important user have the responsibility for the subject area • 28 national authorities are responsible for official statistics

Official statistics in Sweden Subject areas (Energy) Statistical areas (Energy balances, Price trends in energy sector, Energy supply and use) Statistical products (about 26 products) • The government determines the subject areas and statistical areas. • The government also decides which authorities are to be given responsibility for statistics. • The statistical authorities decide about the content within the statistical area for which they are responsible.

Statistical responsibility in the national administration The Swedish Parliament The Government Ministry of Energy and Environme nt Swedish Energy Agency Ministry of Finance Swedish Statistics Nature Sweden Protection Agency Public Agency Ministry of Agriculture Swedish Public Board of Agency Agriculture Public Agency

Statistics Legislation • The Official Statistics Act • Rules applying to the official statistics regarding: – Purpose – Availability – Objectivity – Protection of information – Obligation to provide information

The Secrecy Act • The personal and economic circumstances of respondents are protected. Reasons for confidentiality: – Protection of personal integrity – Public confidence in Statistics Sweden and SEA – Data requirements for the statistics Public information can be protected by The Secrecy Act when they come to Statistics Sweden and SEA

Prices on electricity and transmission of electricity Annual energy statistics for manufaturing Energy statistics for multi-dwelling houses Energy statistics for one or two dwelling houses Energy balance sheet Monthly oil statistics Monthly electric energy statistics Quarterly fuel statistics Annual electricity statistics Energy statistics for buildings with premises

SEA’s strategic issues Ø The statistics in the future Ø SEA nationaly expert in energy area, trustworthy known for experties, best authority in Sweden 2018 Ø The trademark for trustworthy energy information 10

SEA Vision 2050 – Digitalisation SEA is supplying a sustainable energy system for next generation. SEA is transparent, trustworthy, reliable in the statistical Svenska aktörer och företag inom information and the information is also adapted to customers‘ and user needs. . . All using IOT fully automatic and digitilized

Opportunities with digitalisation… • Billion connected people and products (Internet of things) • Communication, processing capacity, and handeling and storing large amounts of data, • Unlimited access to information/knowledge (Big data) • Breakthrough for new technologies • More efficient monitoring and process control • Artificial intelligence • Development in energy, nanotechonology, biotechnology • Decrease response burden • Re-Use and Open data

Challenge for energy statistics Respondents • less burden (re use, admin data, digitalisation) • easier questions, less questions (only those whom are important) • More new efficient collection of data Service for respondents, re use data from one authority to another, singel point of contact Users (Nationally and Internationally) • more statistics (detaild statistics, indicators) Energy Union, energy efficiency, • faster production (earlier use and analyzing) earlier energy balances • better statistics (quality) • Forecast, (combined with other statistics environment, climate). Only ask for the most important • Re use, open data, leeds to change of old modell digitalisation, modelling in Swedish statistical system

Thank you for your attention e-mail: niklas. notstrand@energimyndigheten. se