Coverage of the agreement Sectors

Coverage good for majority of agreement sectors

In recent years, activity in the agreement sectors has primarily focused on implementation of agreements, while in the early years the emphasis was on marketing the agreements and increasing coverage. Only in the most recently added agreement sectors has the activity still also included marketing.

Figure shows the coverage of various agreement sectors at the end of 2006. Coverage of all agreement sectors is presented as the percentage of total volumes of the respective sectors in Finland, to render them more directly comparable. In the property and building sector, bus and coach sector under the public transport agreement, housing property sector, and the district heating sector, coverage of the current energy conservation agreement scheme does not extend to the entire sectors in Finland. For these sectors, maximum coverage of the agreements in the respective sectors in Finland is also shown.




















The figure does not show the national railways local services, tram services or metro covered by the public transport agreement signed in 2005. The coverage of these areas both in terms of those participating and the sector in the whole of Finland is 100%.

In addition to the agreement sectors shown in the figure, there is in force an energy conservation programme for truck and van transport covering almost 70% of truck and van deliveries, and the Höylä II energy conservation programme of oil-heated properties covering more than 15% of energy used on heating domestic, service and agricultural buildings. The programmes cover the whole of these sectors and operators do not join individually, as is the case in the agreement sectors shown in the figure.

Agreements cover approx. 60% of Finland’s total energy consumption

According to Statistics Finland, total energy consumption of the country was 1,366 PJ in 2005, of which transport accounted for 196 PJ or approx. 14%. The total energy consumption includes both the energy end-usage (industry, transport, heating of buildings, others) and losses, mainly associated with electricity and district heating production, transmission and distribution, and other losses linked to e.g. oil refining. The end-user group ‘others’ includes e.g. domestic households, agriculture, services and public consumption, and electricity consumption of building construction.

Coverage of the agreement scheme of Finland’s total energy consumption (1,366 PJ) is approximately 60%, when, for the part of the truck and van transport sector programme, energy consumption of the whole vehicle stock of SKAL’s member companies is included as signed up to the agreement scheme. The corresponding coverage is about 57%, if the energy consumption of SKAL’s vehicle stock is not included in the agreement scheme, because no company-specific participation agreements were signed within the truck and van transport sector programme. Energy consumption of companies and communities signed up to energy conservation agreements currently in force, excluding transport, covers about 65% of Finland’s total energy consumption, when the share of transport has been excluded (1,170 PJ).

Of energy consumption by agreement participants, more than half is in the industrial sector, and a good third in the energy sector. The share of the municipal sector, the property and building sector and the housing property sector agreement participants of Finland’s total energy consumption totals less than 5%. The oil-heated buildings within the framework of the Höylä II programme have been counted as participating in the conservation agreement scheme, although no agreements are signed with end-users within the scope of this programme. The share of thermal energy consumption of oil-heated buildings, covered by the Höylä II programme, of Finland’s total energy consumption (1,366 PJ) is under 2%.

In addition to the energy consumption in the above-mentioned agreement sectors, the end-users of district heating, electric heating, and e.g. domestic households other than users of thermal electricity, can also be considered to partly fall within the scope of the agreement scheme, because the energy consumption of these end-users falls within the advisory and other services provided by companies participating in the conservation agreements in the district heating and power transmission and distribution sectors. These end-users account for more than 10% of Finland’s total energy consumption.

In the transport sector, the share of agreement scheme participants of total transport energy consumption (196 PJ) is almost a third, if the energy conservation programme for truck and van transport is deemed to cover the entire vehicle stock of the association (SKAL) that signed the agreement. This corresponds to more than 4% of Finland’s total energy consumption (1,366 PJ). The share of the energy usage of vehicle stock covered by the truck and van transport sector’s programme of this energy consumption is almost 90%, and the share of signatories to the public transport sector agreement accounts for the remainder.

Of energy consumption within the agreement sectors, the share outside the agreements corresponds to a good 10% of Finland’s total energy consumption. Almost half of consumption within the agreement sector, but not signed up to the agreements, is within the industrial sector, a good fifth in the energy sector, and the remaining less than a third within the municipal sector, property and building sector and housing property sector.