Energy and Electricity Consumption of the Information Economy Sector in Finland

Kari Hiekkanen, Timo Seppälä and Ilkka Ylhäinen

No 107, ETLA Reports from The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy

Abstract: Abstract The role of digital technologies is becoming increasingly important in our day-to-day life. Digital technologies have become part of our social life as well as business operations across different industrial and public sectors. Because of digitalization, the internet protocol and data traffic have been on the rise for several years. Several estimates of the growth in energy consumption of data networks and the information economy sector have been presented in recent years. Occasionally consumer behavior has been claimed to be behind of these increases in electricity use. This report analyzes the energy and electricity consumption of the Finnish information economy sector from 2011 until 2018. Additionally, we compare the Finnish electricity use to other European countries with similar data available. Our report shows that the energy efficiency of the technologies used in the information sector has not kept pace with the growth in the volumes of data transferred on fixed and mobile networks.

Keywords: Information economy sector; ICT sector; IP traffic; Data usage; Energy consumption; Electricity consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L8 L82 L86 L94 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2021-01-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-ict and nep-reg
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/ETLA-Raportit-Reports-107.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rif:report:107

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://www.etla.fi/ ... y-sector-in-finland/

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in ETLA Reports from The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Kaija Hyvönen-Rajecki ().