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Box 15.1: India's <strong>Energy</strong> Statistics<br />

IEA energy statistics for India are based on annual reports and statistical<br />

reviews from several ministries, including the Ministries of Coal, Petroleum<br />

and Natural Gas, as well as the Central Authority of the Ministry of Power,<br />

and the Central Statistical Office of the Ministry of Planning and<br />

Programme Implementation. The lack of a centralised information system,<br />

including the lack of an official energy balance for the country, leads to<br />

difficulties and discrepancies when trying to construct an energy balance<br />

from the various sources of information.<br />

Moreover, since India does not submit an energy balance, the IEA has to<br />

estimate most of the data for the transformation sector. IEA coal statistics<br />

also differ from government estimates as a result of different calorific values.<br />

Another complication is that data are not reported on a calendar year basis<br />

but for a fiscal year which runs from 1 April to 31 March (for example,<br />

2006 = 1 April 2006 to 31 March <strong>2007</strong>).<br />

As a result of analysis for this year's <strong>Outlook</strong>, the IEA's energy data for India<br />

have been improved considerably. For example, data on biomass<br />

consumption have been revised (on the basis of information from the<br />

National Sample Survey Organisation of India and the International<br />

Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) and better allocated within the<br />

residential, services and agriculture sectors. Biomass consumption in the<br />

residential sector has been broken down between urban and rural areas.<br />

Electricity demand has also been better allocated across industry subsectors.<br />

The <strong>Energy</strong> and Resources Institute of India made a valuable<br />

contribution to this work. The projections here are also supported by<br />

information from industry and company reports, commercial databases and<br />

international organisations, for example data relating to vehicle stocks<br />

(including CNG vehicles), industrial output, appliance ownership levels,<br />

LNG plants, oil and gas fields and pipeline infrastructure.<br />

In February <strong>2007</strong>, the Central Statistical Office hosted a major<br />

international meeting on co-operation and harmonisation of energy<br />

statistics. The meeting gathered participants from over 30 countries and<br />

organisations, including the IEA, as well as participants from all the Indian<br />

ministries involved in energy statistics. This was an important initiative<br />

towards more internal co-operation and a step towards better<br />

harmonisation with international standards and practices.<br />

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dominant players in the upstream oil sector, while Indian Oil Corporation<br />

(IOC), also state-owned, is the largest player in the downstream sector. Pipeline<br />

gas transportation and the marketing of gas under the administered price<br />

mechanism (APM) is the responsibility of the publicly-owned GAIL (India),<br />

Chapter 15 - Overview of the <strong>Energy</strong> Sector 447

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