2011: 7.5% energy consumption growth against 1.7 % economic growth
The National Statistical Institute (NSI), keeping with its usual practice, published on 30 November 2012 the energy balance of the country for 2011. The analysis of the balance outlines mainly the following tendencies:
The gross inland consumption of energy growth breaks the record
The gross inland consumption of energy grows by 7.45% on annual base, which is the highest growth since 2001, reaching 19 107 ktoe.
- The ratio between gross consumption and final consumption of energy worsens
The final consumption of energy also grows, but at a significantly lower rate than the gross consumption – 4.2% compared to 2010 accounting to 9 616 ktoe. The ratio of final consumption to gross consumption is an indicator of the efficiency of the utilization of the primary energy resources. This ratio is 50.33% for 2011.
The energy intensity of the GDP grows
The energy intensity of the GDP (gross inland consumption divided to GDP according to 2005 prices) grows because the economic growth of 1,7% in 2011 lags behind the growth of the energy consumption. After a long period of steady decline of the energy intensity of the GDP, the trend is changed in 2010, when the energy intensity of 659.23 toe/million euro ’05 reaches 669.3 toe/million euro ’05 and in 2011 its value grows to 707.33 toe/million euro ’05.
- The structure of the resources’ consumption remains unchanged
The trends representing the change in the consumption of the different resources are quite diverse: the decline of the final energy consumption of oil products continues (3.44%). For all other resources, there is a growth, starting with 1.7% of coal and reaching 17.36% of the natural gas. Despite these differences in the dynamics, the structure of the end energy consumption, distributed by resources, does not change. The share of the resources still ranks as follows: 33% for the oil products, 27% for the electricity, 11% for the heat energy, 11% for RES and waste, 12% for the natural gas, 5 % for coal and briquettes.
- The energy consumption of the households reached its highest degree since 2001
Once even the crisis did not lead to fluctuations in the stable positive trend, the household consumption has grown with another 5.4% and the registered consumption of 2 391 ktoe for 2011 is the highest since 2001. In the structure of the energy consumption of the households no significant changes occur – the electricity still has the biggest share of almost 40 %, followed by the renewable resources (mainly wood), heat energy and coal. The natural gas, despite its 14% growth, remains on the bottom with a share of 2.3 %.
- The energy consumption of the industry grows and of the transport sector declines
The energy consumption of the industry grows by 5.6% and reaches 2 701 ktoe mainly owing to the growth, registered in the chemical and pulp and paper industry.
The energy consumption of the transport sector declines by the negligible 0.5% and its structure, in which the automobile transport has 92%, remains unchanged. Despite that, the transport sector retains a leading position, followed by the industry.
- Convergence of the consumption of the industry, the transport sector and the households
The convergence of the consumption of these three categories of customers started in 2007, with the beginning of the industrial decline, caused by the crisis. As the crisis affected only the industry, but not the transport sector and the households, the convergence has become a distinct tendency. In 2011 the difference between the consumption of the first (the transport sector) and the third (the households) in the ranking was only 12%.
