Arab Region Progress in Sustainable Energy Challenges and Opportunities
Project methodology and implementation
1. Project Methodology and implementation
strengths and weaknesses
Hassen Ben Hassine - ALCOR November 29 th, 2012
2. Content:
1-Methodology – Key features
2-Weaknesses and Strengths
3-Learned lessons & next steps
improvement
3.1-Energy data: Reliability, coverage and
sources
3.2-Emission calculation constraints and
requirements
3.3-Estimation and analysis of energy
sector subsidies
3. Methodology – Key features
Step by step implementation based
on consensus
Training by steps spread over time
Country team technical assistance
Public-private partnership
4. conjunctural and
organizational weaknesses
Political Situation in the Arab
region
Non-regular of participation and
contribution of national experts and
focal points in all WS
Wider coverage of countries in the
region
Need of preliminary training on
economic concepts and statistics
use and interpretation.
5. strengths
Implementation of a network of experts
and expertise
Technical and Scientific output -
Country reports-
Initiation to innovative and complex
indicators - Energy bill and subsidies –
Identifying of energy informal sector
and border smuggling effects.
Analysis and interpretation of
indicators
6. Learned lessons and Next
steps improvement
Energy data : Data
reliability, coverage and
sources
Emission calculation
constraints and requirements
Estimation and analysis of
energy sector subsidies
7. Energy data :
Reliability, coverage and
sources
Challenge:
The project should respond to the
need of policy and decision-makers
for relevant set of indicators and a
database with
unbiased, validated, organized and
scientifically approved
8. Shortcomings
Low Coverage of end-use energy
data
Low coordination within national
institutions
Boundaries of energy system
Some differences between the
collected data from national and
international sources ( IEA, World
Bank)
9. Opportunities for improvement -
regional organizations
Strengthen the role of regional
organizations in the
collection, dissemination and exchanges
data
Arab Union Of
Electricity statistics
11. Emission calculation
constraints and requirements
Lack of emission data do to energy
use in some countries at different
levels of energy use and activities.
Lack of analysis the carbon
intensity changes resulting from
the shift from primary energy forms
to transformed energy, namely
electricity and from non
commercial to commercial energy
12. example of challenge - ETD
European Union’s controversial
Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
takes effect for air
transport, particularly non-European
nations. Beginning January
1, 2012, the ETS would require airlines
– whether they are European or not –
to have emissions “credits” in order
to operate into the EU. These credits
must cover the entire estimated
amount of CO2 that the operation is
expected to emit.
13. Estimation and analysis of
energy sector subsidies
In most Arab countries, internal energy prices are
state administrated
The enormous fiscal burden caused by energy
subsidies, encountered today by many energy
importing countries in the Arab world, implies that
the reform of domestic energy prices has
increasingly become a necessity rather than a
choice
Energy subsidies calculation is complex and often
approximatively estimated
Few data are available to identify budgets allocated
to subsidies
14. Methodological Improvements
The project introduces a simplified approach to
estimate energy bill and subsidies for oil products and
electricity. Studies should be conducted to identify:
Different ways of financing subsidies , including the
parallel use of explicit and implicit subsidies in
countries both exporting and importing different types
of energy.
Energy subsidies can be on-budget or off-budget. On-
budget subsidies constitute explicit cash transfers
made by the government to either the producer or the
consumer receiving the subsidy, registered on the
state’s budget
fuel price adjustment mechanisms which pass through
increases in the price of imported fuels on
international markets to the domestic economy
