Best Practices and Case Studies for Industrial Energy Efficiency Improvement

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Interest in improving energy efficiency is increasing at corporate, local, national and international levels around the world. It is seen as a means of addressing concerns about environmental impact resulting from the use of energy and concerns about energy security. In the words of the G8 Clean Energy and Development Report; “Improving end-use efficiency offers the greatest opportunity to address energy security, price and environmental concerns”. Energy efficiency is also increasingly being recognised as being profitable without subsidies and capable of delivering multiple other non-energy benefits. Amongst these are better productivity, job creation, reduced fuel poverty and improved public health. These benefits have recently been recognised due to pioneering work by the International Energy Agency (IEA 2014a).

This book focuses on energy efficiency in the industrial sector. The techniques and technologies to improve industrial energy efficiency have been well proven. The challenge for policy makers is to accelerate the adoption of those techniques and technologies. This book is intended to support their work.