ENERGY DATA MANAGEMENT UNIT
India is a power surplus nation with a total installed capacity of over 400 GW. Hence it becomes very important to have energy access, energy security, and energy transition at the global and national level. A robust, consistent, and reliable energy data can help understand the energy profile of a country. The Energy Data Management Unit developed by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency under the aegis of the Ministry of Power will compile and publish credible data regarding the supply and consumption of energy across sectors. It will also be publishing a comprehensive report “National Energy Data: Survey and Analysis” which will provide detailed fuel-wise energy consumption data for various sectors. The EDMU database will provide the country’s energy supply data for different fuels, as well as energy consumption data by various energy consumers across different sectors. The EDMU database will also provide energy savings and emission reduction across the major energy efficiency schemes of India. This database will help improve the energy data reporting in India in sectors where it is difficult to collect such data. This detailing will enable a better understanding of the energy profile of various sectors, subsectors, and consumer groups.
Key Energy Concept of EDMU
PRIMARY & SECONDARY ENERGY PRODUCTS
Primary Products | Secondary Products | |
Non-Renewables | Hard Coal | Coal products |
Brown Coal | ||
Peat | Peat products | |
Natural Gas | ||
Conventional Crude Oil | Refinery feedstock, Oil products like diesel, petrol, petcoke etc | |
Additives and Oxygenates | ||
Industrial Waste | Electricity and heat from combusted fuels of fossil origins | |
Municipal Waste Nuclear Heat | Electricity derived from heat and chemical processes and nuclear heat Any other product derived from primary/secondary non-renewable products | |
Heat from chemical Processes | ||
Renewables | Nuclear Materials | Electricity from Nuclear Materials |
Biofuels (except charcoal) | Charcoal | |
Municipal waste Heat from renewable sources except from combusted biofuels | Electricity and heat from combusted biofuels | |
Electricity from renewable sources, except from geothermal, solar thermal or combusted biofuels | Electricity from geothermal and solar thermal Any other product derived from primary/ secondary renewable product |
Energy Flow
Energy flows represent the complete value chain from energy production to its consumption. Energy products first appear in a reference territory2 either through imports or production. Some energy products are used directly in their natural form, some are transformed before final consumption both for energy and non-energy purposes as shown in the figure below. The final consumers of energy products are different sectors including agriculture, mining and households within the reference territory. Once produced and/or transformed, energy products can be: (a) exported to other territories; (b) stored for later use (entering into stock); (c) used for refueling of ships and airplanes engaged in international voyages; (d) used by the energy industries themselves; and/or (e) delivered for final consumption. To create energy balance, final energy consumption3 is further disaggregated according to the type of economic activities. Use of energy resources in power sector are identified independently from economic sectors.
Energy Flow in Economy
Energy Balance
The basic energy statistics refer to statistics on energy stocks and flows, energy infrastructure, performance of the energy industries, and the availability of energy resources within the national territory of a given country during a reference period. Energy balances are an accounting framework for the compilation and reconciliation of data on all energy products entering, exiting and used within a national territory of a country in a reference period. The energy balance should be as complete as possible so that all energy flows are, in principle, accounted for. It should be based firmly on the first law of thermodynamics, which states that the amount of energy within any closed system is fixed and can neither be increased nor diminished unless energy is brought into or sent out from that system. The energy balance is compiled with respect to a clearly defined reference period. In this respect, it is recommended that countries, as a minimum, compile and disseminate an energy balance on an annual basis.
EDMU Annual Report :
National Energy Data: Survey and Analysis (2022-23)
MOSPI Annual Report :
Energy Statistics report for the year (2022-23)