This help page describes the data report for public bodies called ‘Energy & GHG targets - underlying trends'. This report presents key trends in energy, CO2 and activity that affect the key performance indicators calculated for your organisation's progress towards the targets.
- This report comprises a header and a series of simple charts that are grouped in three report tabs.
- All three tabs have a control on the top left that enables you to select the start of the period shown in the charts - either the energy efficiency (EE) baseline or the greenhouse gas (GHG) baseline.
- Name of your organisation and its PSO ID.
- ‘Last year for which data reported’ indicates the most recent year for which data is shown in the report. Note that the data for this year could be incomplete, e.g. because you have not yet inputted some of your data.
- ‘Data status’ indicates how complete the data is for the most recent year.
This tab comprises groups of charts that show trends in final energy consumption, primary energy and CO2 emissions up to the most recent year.
For a more detailed explanation of how final energy consumption, primary energy and CO2 emissions are calculated, see energy & CO2.
- The left-hand chart shows final consumption of thermal energy over time, broken down between fossil fuels and renewable energy.
- The middle chart shows primary energy values for thermal fuel consumption over time, broken down between fossil fuels and renewable energy.
- The right-hand chart shows CO2 emissions over time from the use of thermal energy.
- The left-hand chart shows final consumption of transport fuels over time, broken down between fossil fuels and renewable energy.
- The middle chart shows primary energy values for transport fuel consumption over time, broken down between fossil fuels and renewable energy.
- The right-hand chart shows CO2 emissions over time from the use of transport fuels.
- The left-hand chart shows final consumption of electricity over time, broken down between grid electricity and renewable electricity.
- The middle chart shows primary energy values for electricity consumption over time, broken down between grid electricity and renewable energy. It also shows the primary energy conversion factor for electricity.
- The right-hand chart shows electricity CO2 emissions over time.
- The left-hand chart shows total final consumption over time, broken down between fossil fuels and renewable energy.
- The middle chart shows total primary energy requirement over time, broken down between fossil fuels and renewable energy.
- The right-hand chart shows total CO2 emissions over time.
This tab comprises groups of charts that show trends in the context of your organisation's 2030 targets.
- The left-hand chart shows fossil CO2 over time, broken down between thermal and transport, and a trajectory from your fossil CO2 baseline to the 2030 fossil CO2 target.
- The right-hand chart shows total CO2 over time, broken down between thermal, transport and electricity, and a trajectory from your total CO2 baseline to the 2030 total CO2 target.
- The left-hand chart shows total primary energy over time.
- The middle chart shows your activity metric over time. It is shown as a normalised value.
- The right-hand chart shows your normalised energy performance indicator (EnPI) over time, and a trajectory from your energy efficiency baseline (100) to the 2030 energy efficiency target.
This tab comprises groups of charts that show projections for your organisation's consumption and emissions based on the business-as-usual (BAU) and with-planned-projects (WPP) scenarios.
- The top-left chart shows total final energy consumption to date, and projections for BAU (grey) and WPP (green) final energy consumption from the reporting year to 2030.
- The top-middle chart shows primary energy to date, and projections for BAU (grey) and WPP (green) primary energy consumption from the reporting year to 2030.
- The top-right chart shows the primary energy conversion factor for grid electricity (navy) and the CO2 emission factor for grid electricity (orange).
- The bottom-left chart shows fossil CO2 to date, a trajectory from your fossil CO2 baseline to the 2030 fossil CO2 target (dashed line) and projections for BAU (grey) and WPP (green) fossil CO2 from the reporting year to 2030.
- The bottom-middle chart shows total CO2 to date, a trajectory from your total CO2 baseline to the 2030 total CO2 target (dashed line) and projections for BAU (grey) and WPP (green) total CO2 from the reporting year to 2030.
- The bottom-right chart shows your normalised energy performance indicator (EnPI) to date, a trajectory from your energy efficiency baseline to the 2030 energy efficiency target (dashed line) and projections for BAU (grey) and WPP (green) energy performance from the reporting year to 2030.
Note that if you have not reported any planned projects that will impact on consumption/emissions in the period to 2030, then the BAU scenario is the same as WPP scenario and the BAU line shown in the charts will be be obscured behind the WPP line, or vice versa.
- The data reports page includes additional information on features that are common to many of the data reports, including this one.
- The SEAI reference for this data report is PSO-R03. Please include this reference if you are contacting the helpdesk with a query relating to this report.