Energy Use Survey: Primary industries 2008

Highlights

The total energy used by primary industries was 42,288 terajoules. The graph below shows how this energy was split between the various industries.

Graph, total energy use by energy type.

The mining industry was the largest user of energy, using 24 percent of the total.
Diesel was the energy type used in the greatest quantity, accounting for 50 percent of the primary industries’ energy use. This proportion is an estimated 20 percent of New Zealand’s total diesel use.
44 percent of businesses actively monitored their energy use and costs.

Cathryn Ashley-Jones	27 July 2009
Acting Government Statistician	ISSN 1179-3287