Evaluation of different policy instruments to promote industrial energy efficiency in a national context

Panel: 3. Matching policies and drivers: Policies and Directives to drive industrial efficiency

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
Barbara Schlomann, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany
Clemens Rohde, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
Wolfgang Eichhammer, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
Veit Bürger, Oeko-Institut e.V. - Institute for Applied Ecology, Germany
Daniel Becker, Ecofys, Germany

Abstract

To promote energy efficiency in industry, a variety of policies have been successfully implemented in the European Union. Besides the ETS with its direct and indirect im-pacts on industrial energy efficiency, other instruments such as energy saving funds, saving obligations, fiscal and financial instruments, subsidies as well as regulative in-struments and information policies are currently implemented and used.

The actual draft of the European energy efficiency directive suggests saving obligations as preferred instrument to promote energy efficiency among all sectors. In any case the directive will lead to further implementation of such policies.

The impact of such policies depends highly on the national framework. We will system-atically show the strengths and weaknesses of the analyzed policy instruments, such as energy saving obligations, funding schemes, tax rebates, informational tools and legislative frameworks to enable a transfer of the various international experiences to a national level.

With a multi-criteria, semi-quantitative approach considering eight main criteria we will evaluate the different instruments fostering energy efficiency. Among these criteria are costs, addressable energy saving potentials, market conformity, price and rebound effects and (re)financing.

In a summarizing step we will show a possible system of energy efficiency policy in-struments to promote industrial energy efficiency.