IEA Makes Extra of Its Information & Statistics Freely Out there by means of Upgraded International locations & Areas Pages

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In one other main step in direction of making extra IEA knowledge freely accessible and accessible, the IEA has upgraded the International locations and Areas part of its web site by including a complete vary of statistics and knowledge on the world, regional and nationwide ranges.

The revamped nation pages are the newest instance of the IEA delivering on latest mandates from its member international locations on free and accessible knowledge. The IEA was established in 1974 to advertise vitality safety and supply authoritative evaluation and coverage recommendation for its member international locations and past. Power statistics are on the coronary heart of that work, and the brand new nation and area pages are a part of the Company’s efforts to offer coverage makers and different stakeholders with essentially the most well timed and helpful knowledge and evaluation accessible, which they’ll use to tell decision-making.

The International locations part of the web site options 172 regional and country-level pages that present an up-to-date snapshot of the vitality system and up to date developments within the vitality combine, CO2 emissions, renewables deployment, vitality effectivity, and the manufacturing, commerce and consumption of electrical energy, oil, biofuels, gasoline and coal. The sections are designed to interactively information the reader by means of vitality flows and balances.

Dependable  and well timed vitality knowledge and statistics are elementary to creating efficient and environment friendly vitality insurance policies, in addition to a key factor in longer-term planning for funding within the vitality sector. To this finish, the IEA Power Information Centre offers the world’s most authoritative and complete supply of worldwide vitality knowledge. The main target is on high quality, comparability, and alignment with internationally agreed definitions and methodologies, involving shut collaboration with nationwide workplaces answerable for vitality statistics and different related stakeholders. The brand new nation and area pages are a part of the IEA’s ongoing work to make extra of this crucially vital knowledge freely accessible, accessible and useable on-line.

“Good coverage comes at first from good knowledge,” stated IEA Chief Statistician Nick Johnstone. “For 50 years the IEA has been offering international locations with the info that they should design, implement and consider their vitality insurance policies. With the profound and speedy adjustments happening in vitality markets and techniques across the globe, the worth of high-quality knowledge is growing on a regular basis, and the IEA is maintaining tempo with these wants. The nation and area pages are only one instance of our ongoing technique to make our knowledge freely accessible to as vast a variety of customers as attainable.”

The pages additionally mirror the Company’s efforts to offer well timed, invaluable and impactful recommendation to governments worldwide. The IEA conducts complete critiques of the vitality insurance policies of its member international locations in a periodic cycle, and likewise much less incessantly of its associate and different international locations. These critiques depend on the IEA’s world-class vitality knowledge as the idea of their evaluation. The overview’s suggestions intention to information the nation’s vitality transition and promote vitality safety.

In 2024, along with member international locations, the overview course of was streamlined and modernised, to make Power Coverage Evaluations much more invaluable and impactful. The brand new Power Coverage Overview is tailor-made to nation wants and priorities, offering high-quality, high-value recommendation on how one can develop coverage in focus areas. The overview additionally highlights greatest practices to advertise extra sharing of classes discovered and profitable insurance policies. The brand new International locations part of the web site enhances coverage highlights and proposals within the new Power Coverage Evaluations with interactive and up to date info on vitality techniques.

Courtesy of IEA.