Gogita Todradze

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Institutional Arrangements for Energy
Statistics in Georgia

• Gogita Todradze
• National Statistics Office of Georgia

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General overview
Responsible institution on energy statistics
National Statistics Office of Georgia -
GEOSTAT

• Agencies involved in energy statistics
• Ministry of Energy and Natural Recourses of
  Georgia
• Energy Efficiency Center

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General overview

• Legal basis
• The Law of Georgia on Official Statistics
• The Law on electricity and Natural Gas
• The Law on the Electricity Market Rules
• Annual state program of statistical works

No legal regulation on energy statistics,
publications and energy balance
Five persons are working and responsible for
energy statistics in GEOSTAT
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Data sources

• Surveys
• Quarterly and annual business surveys
• Quarterly households surveys

• Administrative sources
• Customs Office
• LTD Georgian Electric System
• LTD International Gas Transportation Company
• Ministry of Energy and Natural resources of
  Georgia

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Main data sets by sources

• Quarterly and annual business surveys
• expenditure (consumption) of business sector
  on energy (only in money terms)
• Electricity and heat
• Natural gas
• Oil and oil products
• Solid fossil fuels and manufactured gas
• Renewable and waste
• production of energy forms
• Electricity produced by hydropower plants
• Electricity produced by thermal plants
• Production (mining) of oil and natural gas
• Production (mining) of hard coal

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Main data sets by sources

• Quarterly households surveys
• expenditure (consumption) of households on
  energy (only in money terms)
• Electricity
• Natural gas
• Fuel
• Coal
• Wood

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Main data sets by sources
Customs office - - export an import of
energy forms LTD Georgian Electric System -
- export and import of electricity LTD
International Gas Transportation Company -
- import of natural gas
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Main problems

• Availability of energy data
• Methodologies
• Accuracy of data
• Not developed adequate system for data
  collection
• Not sufficient financial recourses
• Not enough experts

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Activities carried out

• International cooperation
• Energy Community Secretariat (ECS)
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
• Projects related energy statistics
• Energy statistics in the Energy Community
  Benchmarking of the energy statistics systems,
  assessments of administrative capacity and
  resources and drafting road map on the Energy
  Community level
• Supporting the Development of a National
  Infrastructure for the Potential Application of
  Nuclear Energy in Georgia
• Model for Analysis Energy Demands (MAED)
• Model for Energy Supply System Alternatives
  and their General Environmental impacts
  (MESSAGE)

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Future plans (1)

• Implementation of international standards and
  recommendations related energy statistics
• Active cooperation with the Ministry of Energy
  and Natural Recourses, with regulatory body and
  Energy Efficiency Center
• Active cooperation with International
  Organizations
• Increase number of persons employed on energy
  statistics
• Participation in the meetings, workshops and
  seminars related energy statistics and share
  experience of different countries

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Future plans (2)

• Conduct surveys on energy consumption in four
  consumption sectors households, services,
  industry, agriculture and transport
• Create secondary legislation on energy balances
• Formation of Energy Balance

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