Why faster action on energy efficiency is needed

How are businesses dealing with the energy crisis?

The general feeling, in the first months of the energy crisis, was that the cost increase would dissolve in a short time. Instead, it did not happen.

Ongoing high prices had an impact on the evaluation of strategic actions that include long-term cost and benefit analysis. In the same time it expedited energy efficiency investments.

The need to promote energy efficiency and to achieve the related economic savings is increasingly urgent, given that energy is becoming more and more precious and less and less accessible.

Indeed, even the less energy-intensive companies, when preparing their strategic plans, are starting again from the energy audits, in order to understand their current state.

The first step is to start a process of continuous improvement aimed at reducing the incidence of energy costs on the product’s total costs.

Therefore the energy audit report today must be more accurate than ever and should lead to tangible improvements.

One of the first steps adopted to control energy cost involves “zero cost” management measures. Starting to question established habits in order to cut waste.

Anyway, after this first step, it is necessary to broaden the horizon as much as possible by going beyond the classic proposals (for example replacing machines with more efficient ones), in order to save energy through more substantial changes.