Energy Efficiency Networks - a Policy Instrument for Faster Diffusion of Efficient Electrical Motor Applications

EasyChair Preprint 14653

Abstract

The initiators of Energy Efficiency Networks in industrial companies in the 1990s did not imagine how effective and adaptive this concept would turn out to be. This "group-based" Energy Management System EMS delivers far better and faster results than individually performed EMS and information activities. The moderated regular exchange of experiences among the energy managers, the potential acknowledgement among them, and personal competition induces much faster implementation of energy efficient solutions. On average, network participation doubles the efficiency improvement of a company compared to individual efforts. In addition, renewable energies are significantly more applied by companies participating in these networks. The paper reports on the potentially accelerated diffusion of high efficient electrical motor applications and on new ideas and technologies generated and implemented by network companies to reduce electricity demand of electrical applications. These may be traditional motor applications such as ventilators or transport chains, but also new ones like high temperature heat pumps or substitution of thermal separation processes by membrane technologies (new electrical motor markets). Energy efficiency and climate protection networks are increasingly considered in European countries as an efficient policy instrument, but also in China, and other emerging countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Algeria, Tunesia, and Nigeria. The concept is continuously further developed (e.g. scope 3 emissions, new technologies of transition in industry, sustainability reporting).

Keyphrases: Compressed Air Systems, Energy Efficiency Network, Energy managers, consulting engineer, diffusion of energy efficient solutions, diffusion of high efficient electrical motor, efficient electrical motor systems, energy efficiency and climate protection networks, large profitable energy efficiency potentials, multiple benefits of energy efficiency, new efficient electrical motor systems and markets, obstacles and market imperfections, participating companies, policy instrument, unused supporting factors

@booklet{EasyChair:14653,
  author    = {Eberhard Jochem},
  title     = {Energy Efficiency Networks - a Policy Instrument for Faster Diffusion of Efficient Electrical Motor Applications},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 14653},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2024}}