Demand Side Data and Energy Efficiency Indicators Workshop for Southeast Asia

Understanding energy demand is key to building reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy systems. Demand-side data offers valuable insights into when, where, and how energy is used, supporting smarter planning, peak load management, and grid resilience. It enables better integration of renewables, targeted demand response, and energy conservation efforts. By providing detailed insights into energy consumption, demand-side data enables policymakers, researchers, and industry stakeholders to make informed decisions, track progress, and implement effective strategies. By revealing shifts in usage patterns, this data also helps assess the impact of policies, technologies, and consumer behaviour over time—making it essential for a more adaptive and secure energy future.

Reliable demand-side data also improves energy modelling, allowing for more accurate projections of future energy needs. These projections are essential for scenario development, infrastructure planning, and ensuring a stable and efficient energy supply. 

Detailed demand-side energy data, coupled with activity data, enables the development of energy efficiency indicators that track progress and measure improvements over time. These indicators help distinguish between changes in energy consumption due to efficiency improvements and those driven by factors such as economic activity, structural shifts, or behavioural changes. This analysis is critical for estimating the actual energy savings achieved through efficiency measures, ensuring that the impact of policies and initiatives is accurately assessed. Efficiency indicators serve various purposes, including policymaking, monitoring targets, making energy projections, scenario development and planning, and benchmarking.

The objective of this workshop is to build capacities in the Southeast Asian countries for production of accurate demand side energy data and efficiency indicators, in accordance with international standards, to serve better the national policy needs. 

The workshop will provide participants with an understanding of the theory of data compilation in three sectors: buildings, industry, and transport. Beyond transmitting the theory, the goal is to motivate the countries to collect demand side energy data and build energy efficiency indicators in each of the sectors. 

Session 1 - Industry

Session 2 - Buildings

Session 3 - Transport