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Energy efficiency in buildings, appliances, transport and industry including Indicators

IEA analysis identifies best practice and indicates potential for efficiency improvements and appropriate policy approaches to realise that potential, including a list of specific policy recommendations:

  • Construction of the world’s leading database on efficiency codes and standards for buildings, appliances and surface transport pinpoints lessons learned and best practice for varying situations and climates; and

  • For industry, an authoritative, comprehensive overview of existing and potential efficiency performance identifies areas where intensified efforts could add value in both industrialised and developing countries.

Energy Indicators

The IEA has developed a methodology for assessing how economic and technical driving factors, such as energy prices, GDP and new technologies, shape energy use and ultimately CO2 emissions. The methodology combines data on energy use with data describing activities that drive energy demand to form selected energy indicators for the different sectors of the economy. These indicators are now being applied as energy policy tools in the majority of IEA Member countries. The IEA’s work on energy indicators has resulted in several publications : Worldwide Trends in Energy Use and Efficiency 2008 | Energy Use in the New Millennium -- Trends in IEA Countries | Oil Crises & Climate Challenges: 30 years of Energy use in IEA countries and Energy Indicators for Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies. The IEA is working to expand the use of energy indicators to key non-member countries, especially China, India, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Mexico. Promoting the use of common methodology for data collection and indicator development will ensure that IEA’s current indicator database can be updated to cover close to all OECD countries and important non member countries. For more detail on IEA analysis and recommendations for the G8, click here.