Designing an energy statistics roadmap:

By providing insights into how energy is produced, transformed and used, energy statistics and balances constitute the basic description of the energy system in a country. They are a cornerstone for tracking clean energy transitions and are also essential for monitoring the broader impacts of energy use including implications for energy security. They are also critical for measuring progress toward key targets, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7: ensuring access to clean and affordable energy. This guidebook offers a comprehensive framework for national institutions to assess existing national energy information systems and plan their development. The framework is structured around three key pillars- plan, setup, and track which are in turn broken down into a total of nine steps. By applying this framework to specific national information system, with the help of its accompanying tool, countries and energy institutions can better understand its strengths and weaknesses and identify the actions to priorities. Based on broad consultations with national data providers, the guidebook also identifies best practices, distinguishing between the “low-hanging fruit” practices that are relatively quick to adopt at little or no cost- and “medium-term goals” that require more planning.