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Europe's Energy
Portal - Square de Meeűs
38/40 - 1000 Brussels – Belgium Document version 2.3,
August 2011
EUROPE’S
ENERGY PORTAL
Description of the methodology that leads to an
assessment of end-user prices for natural gas and electricity
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END-USERS
Definitions
1 Acquisition of Respondents and Compensation
2. Identifying Respondents
3. Data Submission
4. Data Integrity
5. Data Units
6. Data Analysis
7. Data Grounding
8. Historical Prices
9. Price components
10. Miscellaneous Notes
Appendix I. Number of Respondents
Appendix II. Respondent Login
Definitions
EEP Abbreviation for Europe’s Energy Portal
Respondents Entities that submit data to EEP through assigned
channels
Energy Type Natural Gas or Electricity
Usage Pattern Annual quantity of consumption per energy type
EnergyEdgesm In-house developed
software platform that collects, processes and warehouses input from
respondents
Energy Statement Statement from energy provider
that indicates usage of energy in relation to calculated costs, E.g. energy
bill, quotation or notification
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Methodology
1.
Acquisition of Respondents and Compensation
Europe’s
Energy Portal offers readers of its electronic documentation the opportunity to
sign-up as a respondent. Being a respondent is free of charge and does not
include an obligation to submit energy price data. As an incentive industrial
respondents are compensated for their effort through access to energy data from
Europe’s Energy Portal. Among individual respondents there is an additional
incentive in the form of coupons that are randomly given away. There is a
relationship between the activity and quality of data that is provided by the
respondent and their level of compensation.
The energyEdge system provides all respondents the opportunity
to check and analyse their energy consumption
historically and compare their data with anonymized
data from peers.
Respondents
are guaranteed that any information shared with EEP will not be shared or
disclosed to any other party.
2.
Identifying Respondents
Two
different types of respondents are identified: domestic and industrial end-user
consumers.
a. Domestic consumption price data is assessed
from respondents that are private persons. These persons are individuals who
are either part of a household or run their own.
b.
Industrial consumption price data is assessed from respondents that are
commercial organizations, most notably industries. Power plants, used for
electricity generation, are not included.
3. Data
Submission
There are
two methods of submitting data to EEP. Most used method is via web interface.
This interface is an online form that asks the respondent to enter a number of
details from their energy statement. To avoid mistakes or confusion, the
respondent enters the values and quantities as mentioned on their statement.
All applicable conversions, e.g. to euro currency for non-eurozone
EU states and from cubic meters of natural gas to kWh, are handled by the EEP
software platform, EnergyEdge. Second option to
submit data is by sending the energy statement as an Adobe PDF document to EEP.
The data is then manually processed and entered in the EnergyEdge
platform.
4. Data
Integrity
Gatekeeper
for data integrity is the EnergyEdge software
platform. This platform analyses the respondent’s input and make a
determination as to whether or not the entered values are within an expected
range, based on past input and known data for their specific consumption
pattern and EU state.
5. Data
Units
Submitted
prices and quantities are stored in their respective units and, if required,
converted to the EEP standard units for both electricity and natural gas: euro
per one kilowatt-hour.
6. Data
analysis
Europe’s
Energy Portal utilizes Data Sampling Methodology.
The goal
is to determine national, average retail prices. The assessed price data is per
energy type, per consumption patterns and per EU state. Europe's Energy Portal -
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The database is built by respondent’s
input processed via EnergyEdge. It is the basis for
the assessment of average prices for the EU states. The data sample is a
representative portion of consumers from the EU states in consumption patterns
identified by EEP.
EnergyEdge
requires data input from at least 75% of its respondents before price
assessment is calculated for an EU state. In case the threshold is not reached,
respondents are approached via e-mail to submit data.
a.
Respondents may have a variable contract or a fixed contract for a certain
term, both contract types are accepted in the calculation is construct reliable
price date. Section 9 covers the number of active respondents per EU state.
b. EEP
strives to build a respondent’s base that is representative for the provinces
and regions in an EU state.
c. A weighted, average figure, in
euro per kWh, is determined based on the number of respondents per geographical
region of an EU state for a usage pattern. Regions that are under-represented
by respondents have to be compensated by increasing their ‘weight’ in
comparison to over-represented regions to construct a reliable price data.
7. Data
Grounding
Before
the price data is anchored in the main database, it is manually checked to
capture possible deviations as a result of software errors.
8.
Historical Prices
The
historical prices are available from the year 2000. EEP does not have price
data for the years that an EU state was not part of the European Union (EU).
9. Price
Components
For
domestic consumers, the end-user price comprises of the following components:
a. Gas or Electricity price as traded on the
markets
b. Main transport of natural gas or transmission
of electricity, to local distribution centers.
c. Local distribution to households
d. Miscellaneous costs, e.g. standing charges and
metering
e. All
applicable taxes: excise duties, value added tax, green taxes etc.
For
industrial consumers, the end-user price comprises of the following components:
a. Gas or Electricity price as traded on the
markets
b. Main transport of natural gas, or transmission
of electricity.
c. Local distribution (when applicable)
d. Administrative costs
e.
Non-recoverable taxes. E.g. VAT is a recoverable tax and therefore not
included.
10.
Miscellaneous Notes
a. When local currencies are converted to euro,
the average exchange rate valid for the referenced month is applied.
b. Bands applicable to consumption patterns are
identified in the price data tables.
c. EU Average Gross Calorific Value is set at
38.48 (MJ/m3).
d. Price data is not available for:
Ř Domestic natural gas consumption in Greece,
Cyprus, Malta and Finland.
Ř Industrial natural gas
consumption in Greece, Cyprus, Malta.
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Appendix
I
Number of
active respondents as per August 1st, 2011
Additional
information on respondents is not disclosed.
Appendix
I
Number of
active respondents as per August 1st, 2011
|
Additional information on respondents is not
disclosed. Respondent |
Domestic |
Industrial Respondents
|
Industrial Respondents
|
|
EU State |
Respondents |
Natural Gas |
Electricity |
|
Belgium |
860 |
130 |
126 |
|
Bulgaria |
492 |
28 |
32 |
|
Cyprus |
114 |
0 |
30 |
|
Czech Republic |
672 |
64 |
44 |
|
Denmark |
782 |
80 |
88 |
|
Estonia |
270 |
42 |
40 |
|
Finland |
726 |
152 |
112 |
|
France |
870 |
111 |
128 |
|
Germany |
1272 |
202 |
189 |
|
Greece |
582 |
0 |
80 |
|
Hungary |
336 |
48 |
46 |
|
Ireland |
1020 |
100 |
109 |
|
Italy |
612 |
110 |
102 |
|
Latvia |
398 |
50 |
42 |
|
Lithuania |
324 |
38 |
46 |
|
Luxembourg |
702 |
38 |
34 |
|
Malta |
168 |
0 |
18 |
|
Netherlands |
1106 |
70 |
82 |
|
Poland |
796 |
68 |
74 |
|
Portugal |
792 |
64 |
62 |
|
Romania |
402 |
36 |
36 |
|
Slovakia |
318 |
34 |
40 |
|
Slovenia |
294 |
42 |
28 |
|
Spain |
1728 |
92 |
102 |
|
Sweden |
1458 |
68 |
92 |
|
United Kingdom |
3120 |
193 |
178 |
Appendix
II
Website
URL: http://www.energy.eu
Contact
URL: http://www.energy.eu/contact/?dep=4
Respondent Login:
http://www.energy.eu/respondents/