Sustainable Energy Watch (SEW)

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OECD - Energy Environment Indicators
     
Sectoral Trends of Environmental Significance

1 - Overall Energy Use
-Total primary energy supply

-Total final consumption by fuel type

-Total final consumption by sector


2 - Energy Use by Fuel Type

- Percent of total primary energy supply 
  by fuel type

- Percent of electricity generation by fuel type


3 - Indigenous Energy Production

- Primary energy produced nationally 
  as percent of total

- Primary energy supply


4 - Energy Intensity
- Total primary energy supply per unit of GDP

- Sectoral end uses:

-residential: TOE per capita
-commercial and public sector: 
  TOE per square metre
-industry: TOE per unit of value 
  added
- transport: TOE per road vehicle 
  x km


5 - Fossil fuel efficiency for electricity generation


Environmental Interactions

1 - Energy Resources
-Proven oil/coal/gas reserves in tonnes of 
  oil equivalent
2 - Air Pollution
-Annual volume of air pollution emissions 
  (SOx, NOx, CO2, CO, VOC, methane)

-Ratio of emissions per unit of GDP

-Ratio of emissions by end uses

3 - Water Pollution
-Tonnes of oil released
-through accidents
-on a continuous basis (refineries, 
  platforms, tankers)

4 - Waste
-Volume of solid waste from energy production

-Volume of radioactive waste (spent fuel)

5 - Land Use
-Hectares of land taken up by energy production, 
  transport, and transformation (reservoirs, 
pipelines, open-cast mines, harbours, etc.)
6 - Safety
-Numbers killed and injured

Economic Considerations

1 - Environmental Damage
-Environmental pollution damage relating to energy production and consumption, for certain types of pollutants (e.g. SOx)


2 - Environmental Expenditure

- Total expenditure on pollution prevention and/or 
  clean-up
- abatement vs. clean technology
- public vs. private


- Environmentally-related R&D expenditures: public vs. private


3 - Taxation and subsidies
- Direct subsidies by fuel type
- ratio by TOE
- as a percentage of sectoral 
  activity
- share of subsidies for 
  environmental purposes
- Total economic subsidies (direct and indirect 
  subsidies, plus externalities)

- Relative taxation in per cent by different fuel types

4 - Real energy prices per fuel type

Source: Table based on the OECD Environment Monograph [OCDE/GD(93)133] on Indicators for the integration of Environmental Concerns into Energy Policies, Paris, 1993.