Statistical presentation

Data description

The overall objective of the statistic is to measure the energy consumption and use in connection by type within manufacturing. Furthermore, it is possible to shed light on the composition of different energy species, development in energy efficiency etc.

The statistics cover all production units (work places) within the industrial sector belonging to companies with at least 20 employees. Figures for enterprises with less than 20 employees are not estimated. The statistics is therefore referred to as a cut-off statistic (cut-off limit at 20 employees measured at enterprise level). The target population and the frame population are the same. The data are collected for app 2.000 companies with approx 4.000 work places.

In addition to the consumption of energy, related information is collected, e.g. information on heat pumps were collected from 2020 and onwards.

Classification system

The type of industries follows the European standard, NACE rev. 2, which is comparable with the Danish classification DB07.

Sector coverage

The statistics mainly covers the manufacturing sector, but also NACE 08 and 09

Statistical concepts and definitions

Energy consumption: The total amount of energy that workplaces in industry and raw material extraction use in their operations, excluding external transport.

Purpose: How the energy is used at the workplace, e.g. for production processes (operation of machines and plants) or for heating buildings.

Statistical unit

The unit of results for publication is aggregated results based on data for the work places (production units). The different classifications (i.e. type of industry and geography) used for publication are connected to the local units.

Statistical population

The statistics cover all workplaces within the manufacturing (DB07 10-22) and mining and quarrying (DB07 08-09) sector belonging to companies with at least 20 employees.

Reference area

Denmark.

Time coverage

Data on energy consumption by manufacturing industry is provided bi-annually from 1980 and latest for 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024.

Base period

Not relevant for these statistics.

Unit of measure

Energy consumption by energy species are converted to Gigajoule (GJ) for publication.

The statistics contains the following types of energy for which consumption and costs are collected:

Electricity:

• Use/Purchase of electricity (kWh)

District heating:

• Purchase of district heating (GJ/m3/MWh)

Gas:

• Hydrogen (tonnes)
• Liquid gas products (LPG, LNG, refinery gas e.g. bottled gas (tonnes)
• Natural gas (m3) - incl. bio-produced gas
• Town gas (m3)
• Biogas (m3)

Liquid fuel:

• Gas oil and other diesel oil products (m3)
• Heavy fuel oil (tonnes)
• Petroleum coke (tonnes)

Solid fuel:

• Hard coal (tonnes)
• Furnace coke, coke and brown coal (tonnes)
• Wood pellets (tonnes)
• Wood chips (tonnes)
• Wood waste incl. own produced (tonnes)
• Other waste incl own produced (tonnes)
• Other fuels (tonnes)

Information about the use of energy by purpose is collected as percentages by type of energy. From 2020 more detailed information are requested from larger users of energy.

For heat pumps data are collected on capacity (in kW), the capacity broken down by purpose (pct.), the location of the heat pump(s) (by pct.) and the amount of electricity used for the heat pumps (in kWh).

Reference period

Purchase/use in the census year or closest accounting year.

Frequency of dissemination

Consumption of energy by the manufacturing industry is published every two years.

Legal acts and other agreements

The information is collected in pursuance of the Act on Statistics Denmark (Lov om Danmarks Statistik), cf. Order no. 610 of 30 May 2018

Regulation (EU) Nr. 691/2011 on environmental accounts apply as well as a full energy account has to be produced.

Cost and burden

Total costs associated with reporting was 784.000 DKK in 2020, based on an estimate.

Comment

Further information can be found at the subject page Energy consumption for these statistics, or by contacting Statistics Denmark directly.