Table 15 List of energy indicators for sustainable development (EISD) [3]
From: Sustainability indices for energy utilization using a multi-criteria decision model
| Indicator | Theme | Subtheme | Code | Energy indicator | Components |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social | Equity | Accessibility | SOC1 | Share of households (or population) without electricity or commercial energy, or heavily dependent on non-commercial energy | ✓ Households (or population) without electricity or commercial energy, or heavily dependent on non-commercial energy ✓ Total number of households or population |
| Affordability | SOC2 | Share of household income spent on fuel and electricity | ✓ Household income spent on fuel and electricity ✓ Household income (total and poorest 20% of population) | ||
| Disparities | SOC3 | Household energy use for each income group and corresponding fuel mix | ✓ Energy use per household for each income group (quintiles) ✓ Household income for each income group (quintiles) ✓ Corresponding fuel mix for each income group (quintiles) | ||
| Health | Safety | SOC4 | Accident fatalities per energy produced by fuel chain | ✓ Annual fatalities by fuel chain ✓ Annual energy produced | |
| Economic | Use and production patterns | Overall use | ECO1 | Energy use per capita | ✓ Energy use (total primary energy supply, total final consumption and electricity use) ✓ Total population |
| Overall productivity | ECO2 | Energy use per unit of GDP | ✓ Energy use (total primary energy supply, total final consumption and electricity use) ✓ GDP | ||
| Supply efficiency | ECO3 | Efficiency of energy conversion and distribution | ✓ Losses in transformation systems including losses in electricity generation, transmission and distribution | ||
| Production | ECO4 | Reserves-to production ratio | ✓ Proven recoverable reserves ✓ Total energy production | ||
| ECO5 | Resources-to production ratio | ✓ Total estimated resources ✓ Total energy production | |||
| End use | ECO6 | Industrial energy intensities | ✓ Energy use in industrial sector and by manufacturing branch ✓ Corresponding value added | ||
| ECO7 | Agricultural energy intensities | ✓ Energy use in agricultural sector ✓ Corresponding value added | |||
| ECO8 | Service/commercial energy intensities | ✓ Energy use in service/ commercial sector ✓ Corresponding value added | |||
| ECO9 | Household energy intensities | ✓ Energy use in households and by key end use ✓ Number of households, floor area, persons per household, appliance ownership | |||
| ECO10 | Transport energy intensities | ✓ Energy use in passenger travel and freight sectors and by mode ✓ Passenger-km travel and tonne-km freight and by mode | |||
| Diversification (fuel mix) | ECO11 | Fuel shares in energy and electricity | ✓ Primary energy supply and final consumption, electricity generation and generating capacity by fuel type ✓ Total primary energy supply, total final consumption, total electricity generation and total generating capacity | ||
| ECO12 | Non-carbon energy share in energy and electricity | ✓ Primary supply, electricity generation and generating capacity by non-carbon energy ✓ Total primary energy supply, total electricity generation and total generating capacity | |||
| ECO13 | Renewable energy share in energy and electricity | ✓ Primary energy supply, final consumption and electricity generation and generating capacity by renewable energy ✓ Total primary energy supply, total final consumption, total electricity generation and total generating capacity | |||
| Prices | ECO14 | End-use energy prices by fuel and by sector | ✓ Energy prices (with and without tax/ subsidy) | ||
| Security | Imports | ECO15 | Net energy import dependency | ✓ Energy imports ✓ Total primary energy supply | |
| Strategic fuel stocks | ECO16 | Stocks of critical fuels per corresponding fuel consumption | ✓ Stocks of critical fuel (oil, gas, etc.) ✓ Critical fuel consumption | ||
| Environmental | Atmosphere | Climate change | ENV1 | Green-house gas (GHG) emissions from energy production and use per capita and per unit of GDP | ✓ GHG emissions from energy production and use ✓ Population and GDP |
| Air quality | ENV2 | Ambient concentrations of air pollutants in urban areas | ✓ Concentrations of pollutants in air | ||
| Water | Water quality | ENV3 | Air pollutant emissions from energy systems | ✓ Air pollutant emissions | |
| Land | Soil quality | ENV4 | Contaminant discharges in liquid effluents from energy systems including oil discharges | ✓ Contaminant discharges in liquid effluents | |
| Forest | ENV5 | Soil area where acidification exceeds critical load | ✓ Affected soil area ✓ Critical load | ||
| Solid waste generation and management | ENV6 | Rate of deforestation attributed to energy use | ✓ Forest area at two different times | ||
| ENV7 | Ratio of solid waste generation to units of energy produced | ✓ Amount of solid waste ✓ Energy produced | |||
| ENV8 | Ratio of solid waste properly disposed to total generated solid waste | ✓ Amount of solid waste properly disposed of ✓ Total amount of solid waste | |||
| ENV9 | Ratio of solid radioactive waste to units of energy produced | ✓ Amount of radioactive waste (cumulative for a selected period of time) ✓ Energy produced | |||
| ENV10 | Ratio of solid radioactive waste awaiting disposal to total generated solid radioactive waste | ✓ Amount of radioactive waste awaiting disposal ✓ Total volume of radioactive waste |
