Energy-efficiency roundtables and networks: a group-based energy management approach

Eberhard Jochem, Armin Eberle, Anna Gruber and Serafin von Roon

Chapter 17 in Research Handbook on Energy Management, 2025, pp 433-452 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Energy-efficiency networks have been implemented with great success in different settings: as centrally organized instruments with an operating standard set by government (Switzerland, or Sweden for SMEs), or with an open standard set by utilities, trade associations, or other institutions. The Swiss initiators of the format of energy-efficiency networks did not imagine how effective and adaptive this concept would turn out to be. They did not know the reasons why this “group-based” Energy Management System (EMS) delivered far better and faster results than individually performed EMS. This chapter reports on this “group-based EMS”, where 10 to 16 companies regularly exchange experiences and plans in professionally moderated meetings, set joint energy efficiency and CO2 mitigation targets and perform a yearly monitoring. On average, participants double their efficiency progress compared to individually acting companies. This success is supported by collective intelligence, mutual acknowledgment, and friendly competition among the energy managers.

Keywords: Energy efficiency; Learning Energy Efficiency and Climate Protection Networks; Network efficiency target; Exchange of experiences; Yearly monitoring; Group-based energy management system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800376496
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