Energy balance; key figures, 1946-2016

This table contains figures on the supply, conversion and consumption of energy. Energy is released during the combustion of, for example, natural gas, oil, coal and biofuels. Energy can also be obtained from electricity or heat or extracted from nature, for example wind power or solar energy. In energy statistics, all these sources from which energy can be used are called “energy carriers”. The supply of energy consists of the extraction of energy, the balance of imports and exports and the balance of the change in stocks. This is also called the primary energy supply, because this is the amount of energy available in the country for conversion or consumption. Of the energy conversion, the table shows both figures on the use of energy carriers for conversion (the amount of energy used to make other energy carriers of), as well as the production of energy after conversion (the amount of energy made from other energy carriers), as well as the balance of deployment and production. This balance of energy conversion can be interpreted as the loss of energy during conversion. The energy balance then shows the final consumption of energy, this is the final energy consumption. This consists of final energy consumption and non-energy use. Final energy consumption is the energy that energy customers use for energetic purposes. Non-energy use is the use of an energy carrier to make a product that is not an energy carrier. Data available: From 1946 per year and from 1995 to 2016 per year and quarterly. Status of the figures: All figures up to the reporting year 2014 are final. The figures for 2015 and 2016 are further provisional. Changes as of 22 December 2017: None, this table has been discontinued. For more information, see section 3. Change as of 30 June 2017: Further preliminary figures for 2016 have been added. As of reporting year 2016, there are two trend breaks in the Energy Balance that have to do with a better alignment with international conventions: 1. Transfer of electricity from power plants. Until 2015, the electricity supplied by power plants is counted in the use of electricity for electricity production and from 2016 onwards, this electricity is part of energy companies’ own consumption. In 2016, it was about 2 PJ electricity. 2. Moving the use of blast furnace gas and coke oven gas to coke factories. Coke factories use blast furnace gas and coke oven gas to make process heat. Until 2015, this was counted as a commitment to other conversions. As of 2016, this will be counted as the own consumption of the coke factories. In 2016, it was about 8 PJ coal gases. Change as of 12 October 2016: Figures from 1990 to 1994 have been revised. The energy balance figures have been revised over the period 1990 to 1994. This revision is in line with the revision carried out last year for the years 1995 to 2013. The main reasons for this were a trend break in the non-energy use time series, the possibility of using network company customer bases to determine the final consumption of natural gas and electricity, and the availability of new source information on fuel consumption for transport and mobile sources. Furthermore, the own consumption of the energy companies is now included separately and no longer part of the final consumption. Finally, a number of minor adjustments have been made, such as correcting detected errors and updating figures by making new information available. When are new figures coming? No longer applicable.