Energy Management and Energy Efficiency in Industry
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021) | Viewed by 21446
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Building, Energy and Environment Engineering, University of Gävle, 801 76 Gävle, Sweden
Interests: industrial energy management; energy efficiency in SMEs, barriers to and drivers for energy efficiency, energy audits, energy policies for improved industrial energy end-use, industrial energy efficiency potentials
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Interests: corporate social responsibility; corporate governance; sustainable development; energy management; CSR; environmental management; industry; sustainability; sustainability management; management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Improved energy efficiency and energy management are key issues for the industry as it strives to increase productivity, improve competitiveness, reduce energy costs and at the same time contribute to reaching the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) that are associated with energy use and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, the high diversity among the various industrial sectors makes general solutions too shallow; rather, in-depth studies from various industrial sectors are needed. At the same time, energy management and in particular energy management systems are relatively new and most likely would benefit from the more mature field environmental management, in which energy efficiency is primarily studied from an environmental and sustainability perspective. Research has also shown a number of additional benefits related to energy efficiency, entitled multiple- or non-energy-benefits. Increased knowledge of such benefits has also been shown an increasing interest in recent years. Including those benefits may in the end make energy efficiency and energy management practices even more visually cost-effective and attractive for industrial decision-makers. Finally, case studies and ex-post evaluations of various types of energy efficiency policy programs for improved energy efficiency and climate change mitigation in industry, preferably including energy management components such as voluntary agreement programs, is of great need in order at least for policy-makers to learn and improve next generation policy programs. This Special Issue is seeking state-of-the-art papers in the field of industrial energy efficiency, energy management, case studies of multiple- or non-energy-benefits, energy efficiency and climate change mitigation policy programs. We encourage in particular publications which draw from the rich literature on environmental management, which in an interdisciplinary way includes such in the field of energy management. Also, novel papers in relation to lean production and energy efficiency, papers providing enhanced knowledge of energy-end-use in industry and the energy efficiency and carbon mitigation potentials, are encouraged.
Prof. Dr. Patrik Thollander
Prof. Dr. Thomas Zobel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Energy management
- Manufacturing industry
- Process industry
- Improved energy efficiency
- Energy audits
- Energy efficiency policy programs
- Climate change mitigation policy programs
- Lean manufacturing and energy efficiency
- Energy end-use
- Energy efficiency potentials
- Environmental management systems
- Environmental and energy management systems (e.g., ISO 14001 and ISO 50001)
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