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Spreading the energy management message in Turkey

Panel: 1. Policies and programmes

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
Kubilay Kavak, UNDP/UNIDO EE Industry in Turkey Project, Turkey
Rod Janssen, Energy in Demand, France

Abstract

As many other countries are doing, Turkey is actively encouraging businesses to adopt good energy management practices, primarily through the global standard, ISO 50001. Turkey is a major global manufacturer and exporter, with many active energy-intensive industrial sectors. It is important that they remain as competitive as possible so that they do not lose their competitive position. However, businesses are busy and management has a multitude of competing priorities. Increasingly, industry has come to realise the full range of benefits from improving their own energy performance. Yet, the messaging often gets lost in addressing the competing priorities. Two UN agencies, UNIDO and UNDP, with Global Environment Facility (GEF) funding are jointly supporting a project in Turkey to promote industrial energy efficiency. The overall objective of the IEEI Project is to “improve energy efficiency in Turkish industry” which gives it quite a wide scope – and challenge. The main strategy of the IEEI Project is to help remove key finance, capacity, technology and policy barriers that currently stand in the way of the widespread adoption of energy-efficient processes and technologies in industry in Turkey. While there are many aspects to the multi-year project, one is particularly exciting: working with Organised Industrial Zones (OIZs) to promote good energy management. This is a concept largely unknown outside Turkey and for that reason it is important for the international community to better understand how effectively these OIZs reach down and work with companies individually and collectively. OIZs were created under Turkish law to allow companies to operate within an investor-friendly environment with ready-to-use infrastructure and social facilities. The existing infrastructure provided in the OIZs includes roads, water, natural gas, electricity, communications, waste treatment, and other services. There are over 150 active OIZs in Turkey and they vary in size with some of the largest having hundreds of factories within their boundaries. The industrial energy efficiency project has helped create energy management units (EMUs) in selected OIZs. Those EMUs are the interface with industry, raising awareness, helping them find efficient solutions, helping to overcome many of the barriers that are faced. The paper will explain the approach taken by the project to engage the OIZs and will give important insight as to the effectiveness of companies working together within the OIZs to find the appropriate solutions to energy management practices.

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