What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Energy statistics agencies (Statistics Finland fuel price series), horticultural substrate trade associations, growing-media distributors | Quarterly/annual price per MWh or per m³ by peat grade | public |
| geospatial/movement | Geological surveys (GTK Finland, Estonian Geological Survey, Bord na Móna/EPA Ireland), national peatland inventories, EU Copernicus/CORINE… | Per bog/parcel polygon; raster tiles of peat depth, drainage networks and… | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National/regional mining and environmental authorities (e.g. Finland's Regional State Administrative Agencies & Tukes, Ireland's EPA/An… | Per licence/permit per bog site, with area, operator, expiry | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (structural business statistics by NACE 08.92), operators, regional just-transition programmes for peat workers | Annual per NACE class / per region; headcount per company | public |
| energy consumption | Operators (diesel for harvesting fleet), factory-level electricity metering at processing/baling plants, national energy balance statistics | Per site annual; national annual by fuel | public |
| financial filings | Company registers (Irish CRO, Finnish PRH, Estonian Business Register), state-owned peat companies' annual reports | Annual per legal entity | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National occupational safety authorities, fire services (bog fires), operators' safety reporting | Per reported incident | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | National meteorological institutes; operators' own harvest-window records (milled peat drying depends on rainfall/evaporation) | Daily per weather station / per bog during harvest season | public |
| waste & emissions | EU ETS registry (fuel peat combustion), national GHG inventories (LULUCF peat extraction emissions), environmental permit holders'… | Annual per installation/site; periodic water-quality sampling points | public |
| production output | Operators (Bord na Móna, Vapo/Neova, Kekkilä, Klasmann-Deilmann, Estonian producers), national statistics offices, energy agencies… | Per site seasonal harvest tonnes/m³; national monthly or annual aggregates | public |
| inventory & supply chain | Producers' stockpile records at bog margins and terminals; power plant fuel stock reporting to energy regulators | Per stockpile/site, monthly | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Operators' labs and certification bodies (RHP substrate certification, EN growing-media standards), fuel peat calorific/ash/moisture… | Per batch/consignment analysis | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Peat producers and growing-media manufacturers; distributors to horticulture and garden retail | Per order/contract, per customer | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Operators using telematics on milling/harrowing/collection machinery; groundwater and drainage-water monitoring loggers required by… | Per machine per hour; per monitoring well daily | exclusive |
| logistics & freight movement | Operators' own narrow-gauge rail and truck fleets (notably Bord na Móna, Neova), haulage contractors, rail freight operators delivering to… | Per load/shipment, daily tonnage to plant | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Operators' maintenance systems for harvesters, ditch networks, sedimentation ponds and dams | Per asset work order | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.