Regional Seminar on "Energy Efficiency Indicators in the Arab Countries in the Mediterranean Neighborhood" November 29,2012

1. November 29th, 2012
Algeria Presentation
by: Mr Djallal BOUCHENEB
Head of planning department at APRUE

2. PRESENTATION CONTENT
Strengths and Weaknesses of data collection process
Some energy indicators:
Energy Intensity
Electricity consumption per capita
Equipment Rate of Air conditioning in Residential sector
Use of indicators in National or regional EE and RE
policy monitoring and evaluation
Conclusion: consolidation of assets and future steps

3. Strengths and Weaknesses
of data collection process
A- Data collection Process :
Strengths:
 Availability of periodical publications about both energy and socio-economic
statistics through mainly:
◦ The national energy balance,
◦ Sonelgaz (national electricity and gas company) annual reports,
◦ The national office of statistics.
Has been of great help to access the needed information about ALGERIA for this
regional project.
 Relevancy of the chosen national energy indicators relies on the importance they
have on analysis and decision making, by highlighting the trends and consequently
future possible constraints to solve.
 Data quality is guaranteed, since only some assumptions have been made
& it’s mainly official data that were used to ensure the accuracy in spite of the
limitation of the indicators number.

4. Strengths and Weaknesses
of data collection process
A- Data collection Process :
Weaknesses:
 Lack of information at sectorial level (particularly the tertiairy sector
because of the heterogeneous branches)
 Lack of end-use surveys related to the desegregation of the final energy
consumption
 Data collection coverage was partial for some information such as national
production (only public production is available for some industries)
 Difficulty to realize benchmarking at disaggregated level

5. Strengths and Weaknesses
of data collection process
B- Recommendations
 Assumptions could be made based on coherent approaches to improve
the number of indicators and their detailed levels.
 More surveys and specific studies are encouraged to improve data
collection
 Keep updating the database of energy indicators
 Integrate Energy Indicators in the national energy balance (maintain
periodicity through an official print)
 Highlight countries profiles common trends to help develop benchmarking
issues.

6. 1. Energy Intensity
Energy intensity is the most appropriate indicator for
monitoring the trend of EE policies and programs
For Algeria, The Primary Energy intensity trend is the
combination of the accelerated increase in the FE
consumption compensated by the good performance of the
transformation sector.

7. 2. Electricity consumption per capita :
With an annual average growth of 6% for electricity demand (losses
not considered), the electricity consumption per capita trend is
increasing mainly due to:
Life standard improvement
Low electricity tariffs
Construction rhythm of buildings

8. Equipment Rate of Air conditioners :
( For residential sector)
The use of Air conditioners have been increasing rapidly these last
years and it is expected to grow faster in the future.
The main reasons are:
The scorching weather (Heatwaves)
Low price and availability of Air conditioners
Low electricity tariffs

9. Contribution of indicators in EE
and RE policies monitoring
 EE and RE programs are recently implemented, future monitoring
is possible through IE and other macro-economic indicators.
 IE reflects the energy efficiency performance in addition to possible
structure change and energy forms substitutions, and enables
more visibility through deep analysis of sectorial indicators.
 Energy indicators also help to realize regional benchmarking,
by evaluating past trends.

10. consolidation of assets and
future steps
 The use of Energy indicators in further planning studies
(national or regional).
 To Develop a regional database
 To organize trainings/workshops for energy indicators
interpretations