Euro-Mediterranean Statistical Co-operation Programme

Contract: ENPI/2010/234-479

ENERGY STATISTIcS

STUDY VISIT - REPORT

Subject / STUDY VISIT FROM LEBANON TO DENMARK ON ENERGY STATISTICS
Date / 23-25APRIL 2012
Participants / Mr Abdelaziz BOURAHLA, Medstat III

Document’s identity:

Author / Abdelaziz BOURAHLA / Date / April 2012
Recipient / DEVCO/ESTAT
  1. Introduction

The MEDSTAT III - Energy sector organized, from 23April 2012 to 25April2012 inCopenhagen (Denmark), the third study visit of the programmefor the Lebanese members of the Working Group on Energy statistics. The foreseen objectives wereto provide officers from national agencies of Lebanon the opportunity to know about the management and registration of energy flows and products, the use of survey statistics for measuring the production of renewable energy statistics and energy efficiency in Denmark and to visit some concrete projects on this topic.

As planned, the study visit was held in Copenhagen, at the Danish Energy Agency (ENS) and the European Environmental Agency premises, and included plenary sessions, meetings with experts and a field visit to KRUGER Wastewater plant.

  1. Participating project partners

The study visit was attended by representatives of

  • National Statistics Institute (ACS):two officersworking on energy statistics,
  • Mr Albert Khalil(National coordinator and statistician)
  • Mr Ziad Abdullah (IT department)
  • Ministry of Energy and Water (MEW)
  • Mr Nizar Abu Darwish(in charge of energy statistics & balances)
  • National agency of Energy efficiency (LCEC) in charge of EE indicators
  • Dr Josef AL-ASSAD(Enseignant - Consultant)

The representative of Electricity of Lebanon (EdL) could not come due to family problem.

  1. Overview of the study visit

The study visit consisted of three days and was organised according to the following agenda:

Day 1 –April 23rd, 2012–Danish Energy Agency (ENS)

  • Danish energy policy and the Danish energy model
  • Oil and Gas production in Denmark
  • The Danish Energy strategy and 2020 action plan
  • Baltic Sea Regional Energy Cooperation (BASREC) and Nordic electricity market
  • Oil statistics and data reporting
  • Energy data reporting and surveys
  • Indicators and statistics

Day 2 - April 24th, 2012–European Environmental Agency (EEA)

  • GHG emissions monitoring mechanism and energy balances –Project manager for energy and environment
  • Forward looking indicators and scenarios - Head of group strategic futures
  • Data management issues – Project manager indicator development and management

Day 3 - March 8th, 2012 – KRÜGER Company (VEOLIA Group)

  • KRÜGERpresentations concerning Veolia vision for the future WWTP.
  • Visit to WWTP, incineration plant and the newest real time control system to reduce energy consumption.
  • Visit to the thermal plant using hydrolysis technology for the purpose of producing more energy.
  1. Contents of the study visit

1. Danish Energy Agency (ENS)

The first day dedicated to ENS was divided in two main parts: The first one based on presentations about the Danish energy policy and production, the Nordic cooperationin energy market, the second part about the Danish energy statistical system.

The main focus of the first presentation was about the Danish Energy Policy with a particular focus on wind energy. The lecturer started with a general overview about the present energy infrastructure situation in Denmark (oil/gas pipelines, electricity network, wind farms, etc)and the energy market area for the northern EU region (Nordic Energy market). Then, he explained the different stages of development of renewable energies within the international context (oil crisis, energy dependency, environmental impacts, etc). He presented also the general measures in energy policy and outcomes such as:de-linking growth and energy consumption, distributed generation (mainly wind power)and advantage of energy production efficiency. He concluded by the key instruments to promote renewable energy, offshore wind turbines, electricity grid planning (underground) and support to green laboratories (wind, smart grids, buildings, bio energy, district heating, fuel cells and wave power).

The second presentation about Oil and Gas production, stressed the production of oil and sales gas, the future production approach: classification system for oil and gas resources, assessment of oil and gas resources, production forecasts for oil and gas, estimation of future state revenues, determination of whether Denmark is a net importer or exporter of oil and gas. He finishedhis presentation with the key elements in assessment and forecasts (prospective, technological and contingent resources, and reserves) and by distributing the annual report which available on ENS’s website (

The third presentation was more oriented on the Danish energy plan for the period of 2012 to 2020 and how energy production and consumption will be developed in Denmark, reaching or not national and international targets. The main long term target for Denmark is to produce 100% of its energy from renewable sources by 2050. The key elements to attempt this target are:energy efficiency, electrification, renewable energy, and research and development of new technologies. For that the lecturer highlighted the national strategy for the period of 2010-2020:renewable energy, share of wind in electricity, reduction in gross energy consumption, consumption of fossil fuels, investments in RE (until 2035) and financing initiatives. He concluded his presentation with the headline results for 2020.

The fourth & last presentation of the first part concerned the Baltic Sea Regional Energy Cooperation (BASREC) and Nordic electricity market.

Concerning the Danish statistical system, the following presentation permitted to have an overview about the oil statistics & data reporting. It presented the Danish oil data system, the data reporting mechanism for monthly and annual oil statistics and the advantages of the DEA oil reporting system oil data cycle process. The lecturer stressed the quality control procedures (company level, national administration level) and presented the process to obtain a good quality data using the CART approach (Completeness, Accuracy, Reliability & Timeliness). Then he presented the results of Business Survey from demand side (transformation sector, final consumption: annual end-use survey for oil company and biannual survey for industry sector) and finished with the example of balance for energy supply and consumption for 2010.

The following presentation was about theEnergy data reporting and surveys for the Danish transformation sector, which represents 40% of the total Danish energy consumption. The transformation sector moved from mid 80's from centralised production system to decentralised production of today. The data collection from the transformation sector concerns mainly the heat and power sector & wind power. There is an annual survey covering all thermal electricity and heat delivered to a public net, large scale combined heat and power (CHP), small scale, district heating plants, industrial CHP, etc. The data concerns the production of electricity and the consumption of petroleum products of 700 of 800 companies. The rest, hydro power and biogas plants are directly obtained from national grid transmission system operator. The presentation showed also the used "data model"(relational diagram) and how to respond to survey and present the results online.

The last presentation on energy statistics and indicators was divided into two parts; the first part was on the Danish system on energy statistics, the Head of the statistics division stressed the demands to a modern statistics system and mentioned that energy statistics have to be politically useful. After, he developed the organisation of the Danish energy system of which ENS has the direct responsibility by giving the characteristics of the Danish system (international definitions, legal acts for data collection, network at national and international level, national partners and source, manpower resources, energy statistics & forecasting reports, monthly and yearly statistics for oil, coal, renewables, electricity and natural gas and the oil reporting system, model for the energy statistics information system, Evaluation of quality - Quality checks process). The second part of the presentation focused the Energy Efficiency Indicators mainly the participation of ENS with the Odyssee-Mure & IEA projects and concluded with the examples, namely:

  • Primary Energy Production;
  • Consumption of Renewable Energy: Share of Gross Energy Consumption;
  • Degree of Self-sufficiency;
  • Gross Energy Consumption Observed and Adjusted;
  • Gross Energy Consumption by Fuel;
  • Final Energy Consumption by Use;
  • Energy consumption in households;
  • Gross Energy Consumption and Final Energy Consumption per DKK Million GDP;
  • Energy Intensity in Agriculture and Industry;
  • Energy Consumption per Employee in Trade and Services;
  • Energy Consumption for Space Heating in Households;
  • Electricity Consumption in Households Compared with Private Consumption;
  • CO2 Emissions from Energy Consumption;
  • Total Observed Emissions from Greenhouse Gasses Distributed by Origin.

2. European Environmental Agency (EEA)

After presenting the European Environment Agency, its mission, mandate, information & observation network (Eionet), objectives, EEA clients & products, the secondpresentation was dedicated toGHG emissions monitoring mechanism and energy balances. It was presented by the project manager for energy and environment. First,she presented the analysis of the global situation in terms emissions and improvements in energy & efficiency (CO2 as major contributor, HFCs – hydrofluorocarbons–only group of gases increasing, most sectors reduced emissions except transport, energy combustion and improvements in energy efficiency and carbon intensity), the strong uptake of natural gas and renewables in the EU’s energy mix, the decline in solid fuels, and the importance of industry and transportation sectors as largest GHG emitters in the EU). After, the presentation focused on the following items:

  • The EU’s National System for GHG emissions monitoring;
  • Quality objectives in the EU National System;
  • Quality Control of the EU GHG Inventory;
  • Quality Assurance of the EU GHG Inventory;
  • Schedule for QA/QC procedures;
  • IPCC Reference Approach for fossil fuel combustion: Bottom up vs. top down CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion;
  • Correspondence between energy balances in Eurostat and IPCC sectors.

The following presentation tilted Indicator Management Issues - focus on Energy Indicatorshighlighted theindicator typology used by EEA which is described as follow:

  • Type A - Descriptive indicators: ‘What is happening?
  • Type B - Performance indicators: ‘Are we reaching targets?
  • Type C - Efficiency indicators: ‘Are we improving?
  • Type D - Policy effectiveness indicators: ‘Are policies working?
  • Type E - Total welfare indicators: ‘Are we on the whole better off

And then an overview of the EEA indicator sets and a distribution of EEA indicators across DPSIR (Driving force, Pressure, State, Impact and Response) & typology, the EEA indicator review process and report have been presented as main experience of the Agency at the European level.

3. KRÜGER Company (VEOLIA Group)

Visit to Hillerød and Lundtofte Wastewater Treatment Plants

The last day of the study visit in Denmark was spent at Krüger company. The participants started the day with a succinct presentation about the company, the future Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) with presentation of new technologies, the biogas market in Denmark and upgrade technologies. Another presentation ofEl Pozo biogas plant has been given. This plant, which is located in Murcia in Spain, is considered as one of Europe’s biggest pig slaughterhouses and processing factories (Production of 800 kWh/h of electrical energy from biogas)

Then a guided visit was organised first to Lundtofte WWTPwhereparticipants got a general presentation aboutwastewater treatment plant and the incineration plant.The heat from CHP (combined heat and power) unit burning the biogas produced from the sewage sludge treatment process. A large percent of the heat is recovered. Also, in term data control, the plant uses a unique tool for online control of wastewater systems.

The second visit of the day was organised toHillerød WWTP, specifically the Exelys plant which use new technology for enhancing biogas production.

This new wastewater treatment plant is energy self-sufficient and uses the following process:

  • EXELSYS Process : Continuous thermal hydrolysis

According to Krüger representative, the thermal hydrolysisis one of the most effective ways to enhance biogas production and solids destruction when used as pre-treatment for an anaerobic digestion system. Through its design and continuous operational configuration, the process is optimised and most energy-efficient. It is considered as an ideal solution forincreasing the capacity of existing digestion systems and for achieving the full potential of your renewable biosolids energy.

  • DLD process (Digestion - Lysis - Digestion):

The EXELYS-DLD™ (Digestion – Lysis – Digestion) process configuration optimizes the anaerobic digestion process, maximizing the production of renewable biogas energy while minimizing the volume of sludge for disposal. This solution is enough to make the entire wastewater treatment process energy self-sufficient– decreasing costs and reducing the carbon footprint.

  1. Conclusion

Degree of success of the visit

According to the overall participants’ remarks and feedback through the questionnaire, this third MEDSTAT III-Energy sector Study visit satisfied the Lebanese partners and lived up to most expectations. The representative of LCEC wishes to improve the national work on energy statistics. He informs us that he is preparing a national report for the Ministry of Energy & Electricity which could be very useful for the future.

After the study visit, the National Coordinator, on behalf of all Lebanese participants, wished to express his satisfaction with the quality of the documents submitted by the Danish experts, their contents and the level of discussions they have had withthe experts.

He considered that the main benefit of the Danish system is summarized in the appropriate management system and the accurate data flow process on energy and petroleum products built for the National energy balance and energy indicators. He highlighted also the main difficulties in applying a such system at the national level, reminding the quality of data collected by the national working group (WG) members, the non-formalised organisation of this WG and the limitation of the human resources: part-time work of all WG members and mainly the NC on energy statistics.

Next step

The KE recommended to the participants to organise an official meeting between all national working group members (Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), Ministry of Energy & Water(MEW), Electricity of Lebanon (EdL)Lebanese Centre for Energy Conservation (LCEC)) based on the previous MEDSTAT works, the study visits outputs and the Dr Al-Assad report for the ministry on energy statistics in Lebanon in order to:

  • Revise the Energy balance data and estimation methods,
  • Share the work for the preparation of the national energy balance publication
  • Choice the date to publish the official Lebanese Energy Balance according to EUROSTAT standard.

Also, the national coordinator will share with the others MPCs, the study visits results during the next regional workshop.

List of participants

1.LIBAN

Mr. Albert KHALIL
National coordinator Energy Statistics
Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)
Finance & Trade Bldg. Kantari Street
Beirut
LEBANON / Mr. Ziad ABDULLAH
Head of IT Department
Central Administration of Statistics (CAS)
Finance & Trade Bldg. Kantari Street
Beirut
LEBANON
Mr. JosefAL-ASSAD
RepresentLebaneseCenter for Energy Conservation LCEC
Ministry of Energy and Water
Corniche du Fleuve – 1st Floor, Room 303
Beirut - Lebanon
/ Mr.Nizar ABOU DARWISH
Chief of electrical Equipment Department
Ministry of Energy & Water
Tel: 00961 1 565075
Fax: 00961 1 565075
Mobile: 00961 3 233135EGYPT

2.The implementing agency

Mr. Abdelaziz BOURAHLA
MEDSTAT III – Key Expert for Energy statistics
Phone/Tél.: +33 (0) 6 31 42 60 38
E-mail:
ADETEF - MEDSTAT III

Summary Evaluation of the event

SYNTHESIS / Very good / Good / Satisfactory / Poor / Very poor / Not applicable
1. Oral presentation of papers / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
2. Content of papers / 1 / 3 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
3. Style and clarity of papers / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
4. Clarity of objectives for each agenda item / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
5. Division of discussion time between agenda items / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
6. Clarity of conclusions reached after discussion of each item / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
7. Quality of interpreting (if no interpreting provided, tick "not applicable") / AR1 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
EN1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
FR1 / 0 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
8. Please indicate your level of satisfaction with the following aspects of local organization / Meeting room / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
Hotel accommodation / 0 / 0 / 4 / 0 / 0 / 0
Meals / 0 / 1 / 3 / 0 / 0 / 0
Transport / 0 / 3 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0
9. Overall value of the meeting / 0 / 3 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0