IRES Wiki

IRES LLM-Wiki — Map of Content

This is the routing entry point for a knowledge base on the international methodology for official energy statistics, centred on the International Recommendations for Energy Statistics (IRES, 2018). The current corpus covers the concepts, classifications, compilation guidance, accounting framework, quality practices, dissemination, and uses presented by IRES. It does not provide current national energy data or country-specific rules unless a cited page explicitly covers them.

How to navigate this wiki

Each annotation below describes what its MOC defines, explains, organizes, or connects. Compare the question with every description and open all MOCs whose scope materially overlaps; a question may span multiple MOCs, so do not choose solely by chapter number.

Within each selected MOC, follow the annotated links to the relevant pages. Prefer topic pages for cited synthesis. Use source digests when the question asks what a particular chapter or document says, or when wider source context is needed.

Topic routes

  • Foundations MOC - establishes the purpose and scope of energy statistics, explains IRES authority and development, and defines foundational boundaries such as energy products and reference territory (Ch. I–II)
  • Products and Classification MOC - organizes energy products under SIEC, defines individual product groups, distinguishes primary from secondary and renewable from non-renewable products, and connects SIEC with CPC and HS (Ch. III, Annex A)
  • Units and Conversion MOC - explains how energy quantities are measured and converted, distinguishes gross and net calorific values, provides conversion factors, and identifies recommended dissemination units (Ch. IV, Annex B)
  • Flows and Industries MOC - traces energy from production and trade through transformation, losses, own use, and final consumption, while defining the industries, producers, consumers, and uses associated with those flows (Ch. V)
  • Data Collection MOC - specifies statistical units and energy data items, describes legal and institutional arrangements, and explains data sources, collection methods, and compilation strategies (Ch. VI–VII)
  • Energy Balances MOC - explains how energy balances organize and reconcile supply, transformation, and use, including their row and column structure, commodity balances, statistical differences, and missing-data treatment (Ch. VIII)
  • Balances, Quality and Uses MOC - sets out quality, metadata, confidentiality, revision, and dissemination practices, and connects energy statistics and balances with energy accounts, indicators, and greenhouse-gas estimation (Ch. IX–XI)

Source-oriented navigation

  • IRES Digests MOC - organizes digests of ingested source documents by document type and exposes the source structure and context behind the wiki’s synthesized topic pages

Prior answers and coverage gaps

  • Queries MOC - collects ad hoc query results that do not belong on a topic page or digest and records them for later retrieval

If the MOCs do not surface relevant coverage, search the MOC annotations and wiki graph. If the question remains uncovered, identify the gap rather than presenting an unsupported inference as established fact.

Evidence and limitations

Wiki pages are cited syntheses, not primary authorities. Preserve their bracketed primary-source citations when using factual claims, and check page confidence and status where they are available. When a claim is questionable or requires exact verification, trace it through the provenance chain:

wiki page → cleaned source (source/) → raw extraction (raw/_pdftotext/) → original PDF (raw/_pdf/ires-2018.pdf, or the official UN copy).

Method and scope

  • About this wiki — explains the wiki’s scope, provenance method, citation practice, and confidence conventions