Cross-Classification of Uses and Users of Energy

Energy products can be used for three purposes: (i) energy purposes; (ii) non-energy purposes; and (iii) transformation. Energy-purpose use is further broken down into two categories: energy purposes excluding transportation, and transportation purposes. In basic energy statistics and energy balances, data on the use of energy are presented by cross-classifying them by purpose and by user group — the energy-industry categories of Table 5.1 and the consumer groups of Table 5.3 [IRES, Ch. V, para. 5.83, PDF p. 79, 2018].

Figure 5.2 — the matrix

Figure 5.2 illustrates this cross-classification in matrix form: uses by purpose run across the columns, and users — energy industries and energy consumers — run down the rows. Each cell, at the intersection of a column and a row, represents the use of energy products for a specific purpose by a specific user [IRES, Ch. V, para. 5.84, PDF p. 79, 2018].

confidence: medium — pdftotext linearizes Figure 5.2’s two-dimensional layout into plain text, so the cell-to-box assignment below is reconstructed from the surrounding prose (paras 5.86–5.88, 5.97) rather than read directly off the figure [IRES, Ch. V, Figure 5.2, PDF p. 80, 2018].

Users \ Uses	Transformation	Energy industries own use	Energy use (excluding transport)	Energy use for transport	Non-energy use
Energy industries (Electricity and heat, Coal mines, Coke ovens, …)	(a)	Not applicable	Not applicable	(d)	(e)
Energy consumers (Iron and steel, …, Construction, …, Household, …)	(a)	(b)	(c)	(d)	(e)

Note that energy industries have no cell for “energy industries own use” or “energy use excluding transport” — those columns are marked “Not applicable” for that row, since an energy industry’s own energy use is by definition reported as EIOU (box b) rather than under its own row in this matrix, and the industry itself is the source of the EIOU category, not a user recorded within it [IRES, Ch. V, Figure 5.2, PDF p. 80, 2018].

The five boxes

(a) Transformation — spans all economic units in the territory of reference, capturing not only transformation occurring within energy industries but also transformation that might occur as a secondary and/or ancillary activity by energy consumers. Transformation statistics are disaggregated per the transformation-plant list. When transformation takes place outside the energy industries — i.e. by other energy producers — the energy consumed is recorded under the most relevant disaggregation category, i.e. the most similar energy industry [IRES, Ch. V, para. 5.86, PDF p. 80, 2018].

(b) Energy industries own use — see Energy Industries Own Use for the full definition; does not cover transport or non-energy use by energy industries, but does cover own use in production by other energy producers [IRES, Ch. V, para. 5.87, PDF p. 80, 2018].

(c) and (d) Final energy consumption — all fuel and energy delivered to users for their energy use, split into: (c) use for energy purposes excluding transport, by energy consumers; and (d) use for transport, by all economic units — see Final Consumption and Transport [IRES, Ch. V, para. 5.88, PDF p. 80, 2018].

(e) Non-energy use — see Non-Energy Use for the full definition; covers non-energy use irrespective of whether it occurs at an energy consumer or an energy industry, usually presented in aggregated form rather than linked to a specific economic activity [IRES, Ch. V, para. 5.97, PDF p. 82, 2018].

Related

• IRES Chapter V — Energy Flows — the chapter digest this page supports
• Energy Industries — the user-group rows for energy industries (Table 5.1)
• Energy Consumers — the user-group rows for energy consumers (Table 5.3)
• Transformation — box (a)
• Energy Industries Own Use — box (b)
• Final Consumption — boxes (c) and (d)
• Non-Energy Use — box (e)
• Transport — the mode-of-transport disaggregation of box (d)