Energy in Croatia 2004, Annual Energy Report

Report represents a continuous information source for both national and international public on relations and trends in the Croatian energy system. This edition brings certain changes in the energy topics' outline and broader scope of information compared to the previous editions. However, the representative features of the Croatian energy sector, related to supply and demand of energy at all levels, kept the familiar outlook of presentation.Besides the detailed analysis of energy trends, this edition provides numerous information on capacity, reserves and prices of energy as well as individual energy sources' balances - crude oil and oil derivates, natural gas, electricity, heat, coal and renewable energy sources. In addition, Croatian basic and economic and financial indicators, emission of air pollutants plus basic energy efficiency indicators were presented in order to give better understanding of the Croatian energy sector environment. Finally, there is a special novelty of representing energy balances of the Republic of Croatia made in the compliance with EUROSTAT and IEA methodology for years 2003 and 2004. Total primary energy supply in the Republic of Croatia in 2004 was 4.1 percent higher compared to the previous year. The gross domestic product increased by 3.8 percent over the same period. This means that energy intensity, primary energy supply per unit of gross domestic product, increased by 0.3 percent. Compared to the European Union average Croatian energy intensity was approximately 24 percent higher. Total primary energy production, on the other hand, increased by 11.2 percent due to extremely favourable hydrological conditions. The raise i n hydropower by 48.5 percent improved Croatian primary energy self-supply to 49.6 percent. In the structure of total primary energy supply for 2004, the losses of transmission and distribution of energy were reduced only while the rest of the categories of energy consumption increased. The 3.3 percent increase in total final demand coincides with 9.1 percent increase in industry sector's energy demand followed up by 2.9 and 0.9 percent increase in transport sector and other sectors' demand respectively.The overall consumption by individual energy sources records, in general, increase. Only in the case of oil derivates, total consumption went 10.1 percent down as a repercussion of less consumption of residual fuel oil by 32.1 percent, extra-light fuel oil by 5.6 percent and leaded motor gasoline by significant 45.5 percent compared to the previous year. Also, there is an important contribution of the Republic of Croatia to development of Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity (UCTE). The report offers numerous other interesting indicators involved in the Croatian energy system, such as energy form process, primary energy reserves and air-pollutant emissions from energy sectors