OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker

The OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker systematically catalogues support measures governments have implemented to face the energy price shock from February 2021 to May 2023 in 41 countries – 35 OECD countries and 6 non-OECD economies (Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, India, Romania and South Africa). The data have been collected and processed by OECD country, fiscal and energy policy experts and validated by national administrations.

The new dataset provides granular information to comprehensively characterise individual support measures. These include start and end dates, gross fiscal costs, type of support and delivery mechanism, main beneficiaries of the measures (indicating whether vulnerable households or firms from specific sectors are targeted, and, where applicable, summary information on the differentiation of support between beneficiaries) and the impacted energy carriers (such as diesel, gasoline, electricity, natural gas).

The OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker classifies more than 550 support measures into two main categories: (1) price measures (e.g. reduced energy taxes and energy price caps), estimated to cost USD 422 billion in 2022-23; and (2) income measures (e.g. transfers and tax credits to consumers), estimated to total USD 383 billion in 2022-23. Within income measures, a distinction is made between measures that reduce the average price of energy in consumers’ energy bills and measures that are unrelated to the level of energy consumption.

Read the OECD Ecoscope blog post here

Download the OECD Energy Support Measures Tracker database here.