Energy-efficiency audits with specific focus on the industrial sector: policies and implementation

Paolo Bertoldi

Chapter 18 in Research Handbook on Energy Management, 2025, pp 453-472 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Energy efficiency is a key component of climate mitigation strategies. There are several barriers, which impede the implementation of cost-effective energy-efficiency improvements in the industrial sector. Energy-efficiency improvements would result in many additional benefits beside cost-savings on energy bills. Provision of detailed information on energy consumption in industrial plants and on possible energy-saving measures, with accurate economic and risk analysis, can overcome several barriers and trigger the investments. The chapter provides an overview of current barriers to energy efficiency, presents the energy-efficiency policies to overcome barriers, and focus on energy audits as a key instrument to trigger investments in energy efficiency. The chapter highlights policies to promote energy audits, often in conjunction with voluntary programmes and/or energy management schemes. Energy audits are a key step of energy performance contracts by ESCOs. Policy recommendations to foster energy audits in the industrial sector are presented in the conclusions.

Keywords: Energy efficiency; Energy audits; Energy management; ESCOs; Energy Performance Contracting; Investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800376496
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