Setting up Energy Efficiency Management in Companies: Preliminary Lessons Learned from the Petroleum Industry

Bartlomiej Gawin and Bartosz Marcinkowski
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Bartlomiej Gawin: Department of Business Informatics, Faculty of Management, University of Gdansk, Piaskowa 9, 81-864 Sopot, Poland
Bartosz Marcinkowski: Department of Business Informatics, Faculty of Management, University of Gdansk, Piaskowa 9, 81-864 Sopot, Poland

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: In the era of expensive energy carriers and care for the climate, companies are keen to take action towards bolstering energy efficiency. Businesses often lack data on actual energy consumption to date, are rarely equipped with adequate analytical tools, and do not have the know-how regarding the transition itself. Developing energy efficiency management (EEM) for a given enterprise requires many steps, which ultimately unleash analytical potential and seamlessly integrate the EEM framework with the business model of a given company. This study scrutinizes and formalizes a reference process of pilot EEM implementation that involves external business partners in a multi-facility organization. The process is tailored to the specificity of the company’s operations as well as its technical and management capabilities regarding energy efficiency. The proposed approach, phased in time and involving multiple stakeholders, should be especially useful for practitioners running EEM-related projects characterized by uncertain and changing requirements.

Keywords: energy use efficiency; energy efficiency management; design science research; pilot implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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