Monthly Electricity Supply and Disposition Survey (MELE)

Fuel type of economy, category

Fuel type refers to all types of energetic resources extracted from fields, it includes primary energy, such as coal, crude oil, natural gas or electricity. It also includes secondary energy like coke, refined petroleum products and secondary electricity.

Economy refers to the entire set of resident institutional units. It is divided into sectors that consists of groups of resident institutional units. An institutional unit is resident in a country when it has a centre of economic interest in the economic territory of that country. It is said to have a centre of economic interest when there exists some location - dwelling, place of production or other premises - within the economic territory on, or from, which it engages, and intends to continue to engage, in economic activities and transactions on a significant scale either indefinitely or over a finite period of time.

The data for this variable are reported using the following classifications and/or lists:

• Fuel type