New Zealand Energy Indicators
New Zealand Energy Indicators represent the national performance of New Zealand's energy sector in respect to the Government's key objectives around energy. These are security of supply, adverse effects from energy production, distribution and use, efficient economic performance, access to affordable energy, and efficient and fair pricing. The chosen indicators do not attempt to be exhaustive, rather they attempt to present key time series information relating to the key objectives. They are intended to show changes in the big picture. Note: The indicators may change over time to better represent policy objectives and as new data become available.
Key Findings:
- There is slight decoupling of total energy consumption from economic growth as measured by GDP for the period 1990 to 2005.
- New Zealand's imported oil represents over 80% of the country's total energy supply. Net oil import dependency is extremely high at 81% in 2005, 80% higher than in 1990 (45%).
- Reliability of electricity as measured through the national average number of outages and the national average duration of the outages has improved for the period 1995 to 2005.
- Energy related greenhouse gas emissions are 38% higher than 1990 levels.
- National level energy intensity as measured by Total Final Consumption/Gross Domestic Product (GJ/$000) has improved by 11% since 1990.
- The average proportion of total household expenditure on domestic fuel and power (electricity, coal, firewood etc) has increased from 2.5-3.1% of total expenditure for the period 1988 to 2004 (20% increase).
- The average proportion of total household expenditure on fuel for vehicles (petrol, diesel, LPG etc) has decreased from 3.8-3.4% of total expenditure for the period 1988 to 2004 (11% decrease).
- New Zealand's trend in real energy prices mirror trends in the OECD average. Industrial electricity prices are slightly higher than Australian prices.
Energy Indicators Graphs
Data Tables
Further details on New Zealand Energy Indicators can be found in the publication New Zealand Energy Indicators.
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