Energy in the SNOW model. Description of production and consumption of energy in Norway in the base year 2013

Abstract

We present an input – output analysis of the various energy goods in the Norwegian economy in 2013 as it is classified in the SNOW-NO model. The report describes inter-industry relationships between energy industries and other sectors, showing how energy output from one industrial sector may become an input to another industrial sector, energy related or not. The energy output may also be a delivery to final end use, e.g. as household consumption. Likewise, non-energy sectors can deliver inputs both to energy-producing sectors and final energy use. In the SNOW-NO model the deliveries and receipts are in value terms taken from the National Accounts (2013-NOK). We separate these values into volume and price terms, when we manage finding reliable data from the Energy Accounts and other sources. By doing that we can follow physical energy flows in simulations of the model. Besides being a tool for operators of the model, this report will give insight to stakeholders of how the SNOW model reflects production and consumption of energy in the base year.