Industrial Energy Efficiency

Dear Colleagues,

Industrial energy efficiency is key factor for mitigating climate change. For industrial companies, reduced energy costs is crucial in maintaining a competitive edge. The potential for improved energy efficiency is large and varies between sectors and also between individual companies. However, the realization of the energy efficiency potential is dependent on, among other features, the characteristics of the energy efficiency measure. Additionally, energy management issues play an important role if and how an organization succeeds or not with improved energy efficiency. Research on the implementation of energy efficiency measures shows that the implementation many times is hindered by the existence of various barriers to energy efficiency.

In order to overcome barriers to energy efficiency various methods for improved energy efficiency exists such as optimization and simulation, pinch analysis, energy management systems, monitoring, evaluation, etc. Additionally, in order to promote improved industrial energy efficiency from governments, effective design and implementation of various energy policy instruments play an important role. Two of the most known industrial energy policy instruments are energy audit policy programs, and Voluntary Agreements (VA), also named Long-Term Agreements (LTA).

This Special Issue calls for state-of-the-art papers in the field of industrial energy efficiency.

Assoc. Prof. Patrik Thollander
Prof. Dr. Enrico Cagno
Guest Editors

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