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  4. Energy consumption and production (monthly)

Energy consumption and production (monthly)

1. Contact
1.1. Contact organisation

Statistics Estonia

1.2. Contact organisation unit

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

1.3. Contact name

Ella Maria Raud

1.4. Contact person function

Analyst

1.5. Contact mail address

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

1.6. Contact email address

ella.maria.raud [at] stat.ee

1.7. Contact phone number

37253041651

2. Metadata update
2.1. Metadata last certified

27/03/2025

2.2. Metadata last update

27/03/2025

3. Statistical presentation
3.1. Data description

Electricity production, imports, exports and sales; heat production and sales; consumption of fuels for energy production and stock changes; changes in electricity and heat production (indices).

Liquid fuels and natural gas production, import, export, inland consumption and stock changes compared to previous month.

3.2. Classification system

Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2

Combined Nomenclature (CN)

List of fuels 2019 (KYLO 2019, internal code list of Statistics Estonia)

3.3. Sector coverage

Enterprises whose main activity is electricity production and steam and hot water supply

Enterprises, institutions and organisations whose secondary activity is electricity production and steam and hot water supply and whose heat production exceeds 10 gigawatt hours

3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Consumption of fuels – the amount of fuel consumed by power plants and heating plants for energy production, excluding the fuel used directly for production technology needs.

Electricity sold to households – electricity sold to inhabitants, including housing cooperatives, etc., where the final consumers of electricity are inhabitants.

Enterprise – an enterprise consists of one or more companies (public limited company, private limited company, limited partnership, general partnership, commercial association) or branches of foreign companies or sole proprietors.

Final consumption of energy – energy, which is received and consumed after conversions into other forms of energy (electricity, heat, fuel). Final consumption excludes the use of energy for non-energy purposes, self-consumption by power plants and losses.

Fuel stock at the end of the period – fuel stock at the end of the reference period.

Heat production – heat measured by meter readings; if there are no meters, it is based on the fuel calorific value, fuel consumption and average boiler efficiency.

Renewable energy – energy from non-fossil sources (wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment gas and biogases).

3.5. Statistical unit

Enterprise

3.6. Statistical population

Enterprises whose main activity is electricity production and steam and hot water supply

Enterprises, institutions and organisations whose secondary activity is electricity production and steam and hot water supply and whose heat production exceeds 10 gigawatt hours

FRAME

List of active enterprises whose main activity is electricity production and steam and hot water supply

List of active enterprises, institutions and organisations whose secondary activity is electricity production and steam and hot water supply and whose heat production according to the annual report exceeded 10 gigawatt hours

The lists are generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes.

3.7. Reference area

Estonia as a whole

3.8. Time coverage

2000–…

3.9. Base period

Not applicable

4. Unit of measure

Electricity production, imports, exports and sales, heat production – gigawatt hour (GWh)

Fuel consumption for energy production – natural unit (depends on type of fuel); consumption of fuel in value – thousand euros

Stock – natural unit (depends on type of fuel)

Electricity and heat production indices – %

5. Reference period

Month

6. Institutional mandate
6.1. Legal acts and other agreements

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/2010 of 9 November 2017 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the updates for the annual and monthly energy statistics (Text with EEA relevance. )

Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2146 of 26 November 2019 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the implementation of updates for the annual, monthly and short-term monthly energy statistics (Text with EEA relevance)

Commission Regulation (EU) No 431/2014 of 24 April 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the implementation of annual statistics on energy consumption in households (Text with EEA relevance)

Commission Regulation (EU) No 147/2013 of 13 February 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the implementation of updates for the monthly and annual energy statistics

Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER AGREEMENTS

International Energy Agency (IEA)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

United Nations Organisation (UNO)

Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat)

7. Confidentiality
7.1. Confidentiality - policy

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act.

7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

The dissemination of data collected for the production of official statistics is based on the requirements laid down in §§ 34 and 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

The principles for treatment of confidential data can be found here.

8. Release policy
8.1. Release calendar

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. Every year on 1 October, the release times of the statistical database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications for the following year are announced in the release calendar (in the case of publications – the release month).

8.2. Release calendar access

Calendar

8.3. User access

All users have been granted equal access to official statistics: dissemination dates of official statistics are announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) is provided access to official statistics before other users. Official statistics are first published in the statistical database. If there is also a news release, it is published simultaneously with data in the statistical database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8:00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calendar.

9. Frequency of dissemination

Monthly

10. Accessibility and clarity
10.1. News release

The news release “Production of industrial output and energy” once a month. The news release can be viewed on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section News.

10.2. Publications

Not published

10.3. Online database

Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Energy / Energy consumption and production / Short term statistics” in the following tables:

KE20: Production of electricity and heat and index of production (months)

KE21: Electricity production, imports, exports and sale (months)

KE22: Consumption of fuels for energy generation and fuels in stock (months)

KE23: Supply of liquid fuels and natural gas (months)

10.4. Microdata access

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 33, § 34, § 35, § 36, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes.

10.5. Other

Data serve as input for statistical activities 21405 “National accounts (quarterly)”, 21408 “Supply and use tables” and 22201 “Production indices”.

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics

Energy Statistics Manual, OECD, IEA, Eurostat (2005)

http://www.iea.org/stats/docs/statistics_manual.pdf

10.7. Quality documentation

Not available

11. Quality management
11.1. Quality assurance

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, the European Statistics Code of Practice and the Quality Assurance Framework of the European Statistical System (ESS QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements in § 7. “Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

11.2. Quality assessment

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

12. Relevance
12.1. User needs

Ministry of the Environment

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications

12.2. User satisfaction

Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section User surveys.

12.3. Completeness

The statistics are in compliance with the volumes and deadlines in Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics

13. Accuracy and reliability
13.1. Overall accuracy

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.

13.2. Sampling error

Not applicable

13.3. Non-sampling error

Not measured

14. Timeliness and punctuality
14.1. Timeliness

The data are published 30 days after the end of the reference month (T + 30).

Liquid fuels and natural gas supply data 60 days after the end of the reference month (T + 60).

14.2. Punctuality

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calendar.

15. Coherence and comparability
15.1. Comparability - geographical

The data are comparable to the data of other European Union countries because of the common methodology used for energy statistics.

15.2. Comparability - over time

The data are comparable over time, because a common methodology has been used in the time series.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

The data are comparable to the annual energy statistics and monthly industry statistics.

15.4. Coherence - internal

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

16. Cost and burden

Total time of filling in reports of the statistical activity, hours: 2689

Average time of filling in the reports, hours per report:

Energia tootmine, müük ja kütuse tarbimine 0,3

(data for 2022)

17. Data revision
17.1. Data revision - policy

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics of the website of Statistics Estonia.

17.2. Data revision - practice

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available.

18. Statistical processing
18.1. Source data

SURVEY DATA

Total population is 250 objects. All objects are observed.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

The Estonian Tax and Customs Board provides data on fuel stocks at the end of the month in customs and excise warehouses and free zones by commodity codes of the Combined Nomenclature (CN) and inland consumption of liquid fuels.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Data on imports and exports from statistical activity 22303 “Foreign trade” and data on fuel production from statistical activity 22201 “Production indices” are used.

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Monthly

18.3. Data collection

Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in eSTAT and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires.

Data are collected with the monthly official statistics questionnaire “Production and trade of energy, consumption of fuels”.

The data from the Tax and Customs Board are obtained via an FTP-server.

18.4. Data validation

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including comparison with other data. Before data dissemination, the internal coherence of the data is checked.

18.5. Data compilation

In the case of missing or unreliable data, estimate imputation based on established regulations will be used.

Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing the output are calculated. New variables are calculated by applying arithmetic conversion to already existing variables. This may be done repeatedly, the derived variable may, in turn, be based on previously derived new variables.

Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures.

The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators. Last year's data may be adjusted until final annual statistics are available.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applicable

19. Comments

Not available

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