Improved energy efficiency can help companies to:
- Reduce energy and production costs
- Improve environmental performance and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Reduce exposure to rising energy prices and energy shortages
- Win new customers who consider environment as an important selection criteria
This Methodology has been developed because it:
- Is tailored to energy-intensive industrial companies in developing Asian countries, which in many ways are different from companies in industrialized and Western countries
- Focuses on energy, which is less visible than waste, water and raw materials
- Explains not only what should be done in theory, but also how it is done in practice because all companies are different. A focus is therefore given on how to overcome barriers such as time limitations and lack of data, and on practical company examples
This Methodology is based on:
- The Cleaner Production (CP) strategy: prevention of waste, systematic approach, integrated into business processes and aimed at continuous improvement
- Several existing CP and energy audit methodologies
- Real practice experience from energy assessments carried out as part of the GERIAP project in more than 40 Asian industrial companies
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