# Presentation: 299350

## Electricity 2008:Clearance of Electricity SurveysThis is a working document prepared by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in order to solicit advice and comment on statistical matters from the American Statistical Association Committee on Energy Statistics.  This topic will be discussed at EIA's fall 2006, meeting with the Committee to be held October 5 and 6, 2006. American Statistical AssociationOctober 5, 2006Robert Schnapp Director, Electric Power DivisionEnergy Information Administration 

## Electricity 2008 Phased Approach

**Phase I**
**Data **
**Requirements**

**Phase II**
**Forms Design**

**Phase III**
**Collection and**
**Processing**

**Phase IV**
**Dissemination**

**Analysis of Key Issues**
**Stakeholder Coordination****	**
**Evaluation of Confidentiality Policy**
**Federal Register Notice**

**Consolidations**
**Revisions**
**Pilot Testing**
**OMB Clearance**

**Imputation Procedures**
**Data Processing ****	****System**
**Internet Data Collection**

**Electric Power Annual**
**Electric Power Monthly**
**Detailed Spreadsheets**
**Databases**
**State Electricity Profiles**
**Cost and Quality**

**	****February 2007****	****  November 2007****	****  December 2007****	****    June 2008**

## Key Areas/Issues

**Merge EIA-906, EIA-920, EIA-423 forms to collect fuel consumption, fuel receipts, generation, and stocks on one form**
**Discontinue collecting monthly data from industrial and commercial combined heat and power plants, but continue with them on the annual collection**
**Merge EIA-860 and EIA-767 forms to collect static equipment information on one form**
**collect data from small operators once every three years**
**Clarify instructions on all forms**
**Assess the data confidentiality policy**
**Improve on-line edits and quality assurance reports**

## Support Activities

**Design all hardcopy forms**
**Design all forms on the Internet**
**Field test new forms**
**Provide Independent Expert Reviewers for issues**
**How to handle unpublished data**
**Ideas to merge forms**
**CHP methodology**

## Existing Confidential Data Elements

**Fuel cost (EIA-423)**
**Fuel stocks (EIA-906)**
**Monthly retail sales, revenue, and number of customers (energy only service) (EIA-826)**
**Latitude and longitude (EIA-767, EIA-860)**
**Maximum tested heat rate under full load conditions (EIA-860)**

## Potential Changes to Confidentiality Policy

**Release data 9 months after year end**
**Fuel cost**
**Fuel stocks**
**Monthly retail sales, revenue, and number of customers (energy only service) (EIA-826)**
**Remove confidentiality from latitude and longitude **

## Internet Data Collection System

**All data requests have gone via e-mail**
**Established a Help Center to field inquiries**
**85 percent (over 30,000) of all forms were submitted over the Internet in 2005; 87 percent of monthly forms, 80 percent of annual forms**

## Savings From the Internet Data Collection System

**Electric Power Monthly produced in 68 days vs. 161 days previously**
**Electric Power Annual produced in 272 days vs. 470 days previously**
**State Electricity Profiles**
**Cost and Quality of Fuels**
**Annual State-level Spreadsheets from 1990**
**New Monthly Flash Estimates of Monthly Electric Power Data**