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The Energy Efficiency Data Gathering and Analysis Project (EEDP) is aimed at improving the evidence base for the development and evaluation of energy efficiency policies. The project will help achieve this by developing and implementing a plan for improving energy efficiency data collection and analysis, including methods to fill identified gaps. This will better inform the development, refinement and evaluation of new and existing energy efficiency policies.
The EEDP is needed to understand the current situation of energy efficiency data collection and analysis in Australia and, where necessary, develop and implement a plan for its improvement. The project seeks to improve the data available to policy developers on a range of energy efficiency related issues. Reliable, regular and accurate data will help drive effective energy efficiency policy development and enable the evaluation of such policies once they are implemented.
The key elements of the EEDP are:
Undertake a data gap analysis of energy efficiency in Australia.
Develop a strategy for the collection and analysis of data to fill gaps.
Collection and analysis of data in accordance with the developed strategy; subject to agreement of jurisdictions.
As part of this, the EEDP will:
aim to fill data gaps not covered by the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System (NGERS)
develop methodologies for using existing data to construct energy efficiency indicators.
The EEDP is directed by a Working Group comprising representatives from key Commonwealth, State and Territory energy, industry, environment and climate change agencies. Two key data collecting and management bodies are also involved, namely, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.