Energy Profile

An Energy Atlas is an inventory of basic information about energy that are necessary to define and implement an Energy Self-sufficiency Strategy. The first basic information about energy is the energy profile.

An energy profile makes an inventory of all primary productions, imports, exports, transformations and consumptions of energy.

It gives a detailed view, per energy and per sector, of the energy situation of an island, region, country over a certain period, typically over a year.

An energy profile has two functions.

• To provide a clear understanding of the energy situation
  By comparing the energy situation with the ideal energy situation, it is possible to draw areas of efforts. This easily leads to the definition of a strategy.
• To follow changes by comparing to the previous periods
  This allows to measure the results of the defined strategy and the implemented actions over the previous periods.

Island-NEWS energy profile methodology
Island-NEWS has developed a common methodology for Energy Profile. It is simple and refers to international conventions set by organisations such as the International Energy Agency.
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The United Nations Statistics Division
UNSD collects energy statistics from more than 190 countries and updates and maintains the Energy Statistics Database which contains comprehensive energy statistics on more than 215 countries, regions and areas.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/energy/default.htm

International Energy Agency
The IEA has produced an Energy Statistics Manual that explains how to establish an Energy Profile:
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/publications/free_new_Desc.asp?PUBS_ID=1461
The IEA also provides energy profiles for a selection of countries.
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/stats/index.asp

EUROSTAT
Eurostat is the statistics office of the European Commission. It provides climate change and energy data concerning EU and candidate counties.
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EurObserv'ER
ADEME and the European directorate general for energy and transport provides financial support to a European barometer on Renewable Energy Sources. This barometer is prepared by Observ’ER in the scope of “EurObserv’ER” Project which groups together Observ’ER, Eurec Agency, Erec, Eufores, Institut Jozef Stefan and Systèmes Solaires, with the participation of EC BREC.
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/res/publications/barometers_en.htm

The US Department of Energy and the Energy Information Administration
The DOE provides information on energy. The EIA is the statistics office of the DOE: it provides US and international energy data.
http://www.energy.gov/index.htm
http://www.eia.doe.gov/

BP Statistical Review of World Energy
Eurostat is the statistics office of the European Commission. It provides climate change and energy data concerning EU and candidate counties.
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France - Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie
The French Ministry of Economy, Finances and Industry hosts a statistics office named Direction Générale de l'Energie et des Matières Premières. This office provides data on energy, raw materials and the French industry.
http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/energie/sommaire.htm