Energy Efficiency Benchmark Industry

DOI

10.2991/978-94-6463-928-5_14How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Energy Efficiency; Energy Performance Indicators; Industry

Abstract

The rational use of energy is crucial to industrial companies especially when energy prices are rising and the necessity for green energy is increasing. In order to improve energy efficiency, companies need to compare their energy efficiency with others to see whether their own performance is better or worse than that of competitors, to show whether rational use increased or decreased and to control their own improvement goals. To give reliable measures, suitable energy performance indicators need to be calculated which base on robust data. Founded on available data since 2015 from of the Federal Statistical Office in Germany for over 45,000 companies with 20 or more employees summarized in over 300 economic sectors (NACE 4-digits) the Energy Efficiency Benchmark for the Industry (EEBI) was developed. The benchmark is calculated using the annual survey of energy use in manufacturing, mining and quarrying, the cost structure survey and the annual report for companies in the manufacturing sector. Besides a wide inter- and cross-sectional view, the developed EEBI gives a solid set of longitudinal data. The calculated indicators allow for fact-based comparisons of companies of different sizes by reference values, esp. Turnover, gross value added and employees with regard to fuel intensity, electricity intensity, total energy consumption and CO2-emissions. The available database of indicators in the EEBI gives industrial companies from mining and manufacturing the possibility to generate an own benchmark report which shows how the firm performers in relation to the direct competitors in the same sector (with the same NACE-Code). Remark: NACE is a four-digit classification providing the framework for collecting and presenting statistical data according to economic activity.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tino Schuette
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/25
TI  - Energy Efficiency Benchmark Industry
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference Resources and Technology (RESAT 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 175
EP  - 185
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-928-5_14
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-928-5_14
ID  - Schuette2025
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