New energy use information for industrial and trade sectors

The total energy used by the industrial and trade sectors in 2009 was 358,000 terajoules, Statistics New
Zealand said today. "This is roughly equivalent to the total energy that would be used if every person in
the country kept a light bulb on for 30 years straight,” energy statistics manager Gary Dunnet said.

The industrial and trade sectors and their energy usage are broken down as follows:

• manufacturing, 191,000 terajoules
• transport, postal, and warehousing, 107,000 terajoules
• construction, 20,000 terajoules
• electricity, gas, water, and waste services, 15,000 terajoules
• retail trade, 14,000 terajoules
• wholesale trade, 11,000 terajoules.

Over half of the businesses surveyed reported that they were monitoring energy use or costs as an
energy saving initiative. The next most common initiative was installing or upgrading energy saving
technologies.

These results are from the second Energy Use Survey, which surveyed businesses in the industrial and
trade sectors in 2009. The survey was carried out by Statistics NZ in collaboration with the Ministry of
Economic Development and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. Results for the primary
sector, surveyed in 2008, are available from the Statistics NZ website, www.stats.govt.nz.