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• |Energy Demand

Total energy consumption per capita is 4.8 toe/cap and ranks among the hightest in Eastern Europe, close to that of the Czech Republic and Russia, mainly due to oil shale combustion in thermal power plants with low efficiency.

The years 1992 to 2002 showed a significant decrease in overall consumption (- 6 % until 1999, stagnating between 1999 and 2002), which can be led back to industrial closings and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. However from 2002 onwards energy consumption is increasing by 5.4 %/year. [ Enerdata ]

The share of industry in final consumption – including non energy uses – has decreased from 47% in 1992 to 29% in 2008. The share of the residential and service sector is rising: It was only 28% in 1992, and is by 2008 consuming approximately 47 % of final enery.

Primary energy intensity is an indicator to show how much energy is needed to produce one quantity of economic output.

The energy intensity of Estonia, although it has decreased since Estonia’s independence, is still more than twice as high as in the average EU country.

The deviation of electricity demand per GDP of a country from that of Austria or the EU average indicates, how efficiently electricity is utilised in the respective economy in comparison to the EU or to Austria, or, conversely, which gains in efficiency are to be realised. If the electricity demand per GDP decreases – what can be expected for the future in CEE countries – more national income in the form of GDP will be produced with the same amount of electricity (the black bars in the figure will decrease in this case).

Prices

The Energy Market Inspectorate (EMI) controls the electricity and gas prices. In 2007 the electricity price was on average € 4.7c/kWh for industry, and € 7.2c/kWh for households.

Analysis of prices of fuels purchased by power and boiler plants indicates that in 2000 these prices increased along with the prices of import prices, but in 2001 the decrease of import prices did not cause any similar change in consumer prices.

The price increase of end-user prices continued, with a more modest pace only.

[ Eesti Energeetika ]