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Energy efficiency in industry – aimed actions leading to extended awareness all through the corporation: energy project for increased energy efficiency in small and medium sized enterprises

Panel: 3. Energy use in industry: The road from policy to action

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Author:
Henrik Dinkel, County Administrative Board/Länsstyrelsen i Jönköpings län, Sweden

Abstract

The County Administrative Board of Jonkoping, Sweden, has for a number of years been working decisively with small and medium sized enterprises in order to improve energy efficiency. Since February 2009 a project has been running with the objective to inspire mainly manufacturing industries to adopt energy policies and to do energy audits. The project included a thorough evaluation of similar projects in order to identify and avoid common mistakes and obstacles. At the end of 2009 one hundred enterprises had shown interest in, together with qualified energy consultants, performing individual energy audits. Up until June 2010 over one hundred audits had been done of which 85 were performed at manufacturing industries. The audits resulted in a battery of measures related to the building, water, space heat and cooling, ventilation, lighting, load management, compressed air and buying and management strategies. The measures will if fully implemented result in 10-30 % more efficient energy management per year and company.

In 2011-2012 the Board together with Enterprise Europe Network will continue working with the enterprises engaging them in “Energy Networking”. In the Network Programme some of the measures suggested in recently performed audit reports, will be implemented in groups of 5-10 companies. The objective is to get a connection between small and medium enterprises with similar problems and take it to a higher level of implementation, including further knowledge of different measures, energy policies and decision-making on management level.

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