Energy efficiency and sustainability assessment of about 500 small and medium-sized enterprises in Central Europe region

Viesi, Diego; Pozzar, Francesca; Federici, Alessandro; Crema, Luigi; Mahbub, Md. Shahriar

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2017.02.045

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“…About 500 companies, the majority of which are SMEs, were analysed by the results from an online self-assessment questionnaire [50]. The companies were evaluated and benchmarked in five sections: general data about the company, energy status, energy management, self-evaluation of performance, and future outlook and vision.…”

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“…The authors conclude that lack of awareness and commitment from top management are major barriers in SMEs leading to a low priority of energy efficiency, which should be taken into account when designing policies. The collection of high-quality data and information from the companies is crucial to overcome barriers related to investment risks and the online questionnaire is suggested as a tool to lower the perception of barriers for both SMEs and banks [50].…”

Section: Barriers and Driversmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing Policies and Programmes for Improved Energy Efficiency in Industrial SMEs

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Climate change, due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, is driving policymakers to make decisions to promote more efficient energy use. Improved industrial energy efficiency is said to play a key role in the transition to more carbon-neutral energy systems. In most countries, industrial small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 95% or more of the total number of companies. Thus, SMEs, apart from using energy, are a major driver in the economy with regard to innovation, GDP growth, employment, investments, exports, etc. Despite this, research and policy activities related to SMEs have been scarce, calling for contributions in the field. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to critically assess how adequate energy efficiency policy programmes for industrial SMEs could be designed. Results show that scientific publications in the field differ in scope and origin, but a major emphasis of the scientific papers has been on barriers to and drivers for energy efficiency. Scientific contributions from studies of energy policy programmes primarily cover energy audit programmes and show that the major energy efficiency measures from industrial SMEs are found in support processes. The review further reveals an imbalance in geographic scope of the papers within the field, where a vast majority of the papers emanate from Europe, calling for scientific publications from other parts of the world. The study synthesizes the findings into a general method on how to design efficiency programs for the sector.

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Designing Policies and Programmes for Improved Energy Efficiency in Industrial SMEs

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“…Small and medium enterprises constitute the main focus in shaping business development policies in the European Union (EU) coming to the forefront of the world economy (Kozubikova et al, 2015;Ehrenberger et al, 2015;Dai et al, 2017;Durguner, 2017;Kotane & Kuzmina-Merlino, 2017;Kuhn et al, 2017;Strielkowski et al, 2017;Melnichuk, 2017;Viesi et al, 2017;Machová et al, 2016). According to many researchers, by 2020 more than 50% of all workplaces will be occupied by sole traders and freelancers.…”

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Small and medium enterprises in the context of regional development and innovations

Ruchkina

Melnichuk

Фрумина

et al. 2017

Journal of International Studies

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Abstract. The current state of economic development and innovations' support often brings small and medium enterprises (SMEs) at the forefront of government fiscal policy. Various policy measures targeted at SMEs' support and development necessarily include measures on promotion of innovations within small business. However, despite substantial efforts undertaken by the authorities to increased financial injections into this area, development of innovations by small businesses faces many obstacles. Statistics on the registered small and medium enterprises shows that the sharp rise of entrepreneurship observed in the early 1990s changed for the stagnation towards the end of the decade and sluggish dynamics of the present time. Unfortunately, as practice shows, measures taken so far do not stimulate significant changes in the development of small business. Moreover, differentiation of small businesses between regions is only increasing, as it is manifested through substitution of divergence for convergence. Our paper analyzes the legal framework regulating small business development as well as state of innovations within SMEs so that to identify the main indicators

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“…However, most of researches are focused on designated factories and there is no report concerning energy efficiency of non-designated factories in Thailand. Nevertheless many researches for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) focusing on energy efficiency have been reported in Taiwan [6], Sweden [7,8], Italy [9], Eastern Europe [10], Germany [11,12], India [13,14] and China [15]. Regarding to energy policy, it was found that energy policy of each country has a strong impact on energy consumption and must be implemented in a first priority [16][17][18][19].…”

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Energy Saving Potential for Non-Designated Factories: A Case Study of Thailand

Polila¹,

Wongwuttanasatian²

2018

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Abstract. Energy saving potential for non-designated factories which are medium and small size factories was investigated. In Thailand, factories are classified into two major groups called designated and non-designated factories. Designated factories are controlled their energy consumptions by law but non-designated have no seriously enforcement in energy conservation by the government due to low level energy consumption per factory. However, the number of non-designated factories are 123,064 factories accounting for 95.58% of all 128,761 factories. Thus total energy consumption of non-designated factories is significant and should be considered for energy efficiency measures. 32 samples of non-designated factories in 4 industries: ice cube, rice mill, concrete and drinking water, that located in upper part of north-eastern Thailand were surveyed. Energy consumption data, production volume in 12 months, main energy consumed equipment and their energy conservation measures were investigated and analyzed. Linear regression method was used to determine the specific energy consumption (SEC) of each factory and compared with SEC of the same industry, then the potential of energy saving was evaluated by 2 methods i.e. comparing the SEC of each surveyed factory with the best SEC in same industry, comparing the SEC of each surveyed factory with the SEC of designated factory in same industry. Results showed that the potential of energy saving for ice cube, rice mill, concrete and drinking water industries were 608.31 toe/year, 234.87toe/year, 29.92 toe/year and 6.04 toe/year respectively. These potentials are in total of 879.14 toe/year, accounting for 40.71% of their 2,159.65 toe/year total energy consumption. The results of 32 samples suggested that non-designated factories have a great energy saving potential thus there should be a policy to cover this numerous factories for energy consumption and saving.

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Energy efficiency and sustainability assessment of about 500 small and medium-sized enterprises in Central Europe region

Cited by 40 publications

References 5 publications

Designing Policies and Programmes for Improved Energy Efficiency in Industrial SMEs

Designing Policies and Programmes for Improved Energy Efficiency in Industrial SMEs

Small and medium enterprises in the context of regional development and innovations

Energy Saving Potential for Non-Designated Factories: A Case Study of Thailand

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