Barriers to and driving forces for energy efficiency in the non-energy intensive manufacturing industry in Sweden

By P. Rohdin, Patrik Thollander. 2006

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The manufacturing industry is facing tougher competition which increases the demand to implement cost-effective energy efficiency measures. However, studies have indicated that obvious cost-efficient measures are not always undertaken. This is explained by the existence of barriers to energy efficiency. The aim of this study is to investigate the existence and importance of different barriers to the implementation of energy efficiency measures in the Swedish non-energy intensive manufacturing industry. Results from this study highlight a number of factors that inhibit the degree of implementation, such as the cost and risk associated with production disruptions, lack of time and other priorities, lack of sub-metering in larger organizations, etc. The study also finds a number of drivers, such as the existence of people with real ambition and a long-term energy strategy at site level.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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A framework to characterize energy efficiency measures (2014, background): “In this field in fact only a few empirical studies have been developed [107–110], but, and more critical, still a lack in a comprehensive theoretical classification there exists, as the existing contributions seem to be more a list of potential drivers than taxonomies [3,42,111].”
Energy Efficiency Determinants: An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Innovative Firms (2015, background): “In empirical analysis the literature has attempted to identify barriers that hinder the adoption of EE investments (Anderson and Newell, 2004; De Groot et al., 2001; Fleiter et al., 2012; Rohdin and Thollander, 2006; Trianni and Cagno, 2012).”
Barriers to industrial energy efficiency in foundries: a European comparison (2013, background): “Moreover, lack of capital has been highlighted as the major barrier also by the Italian manufacturing SMEs involved in the study by Trianni and Cagno (Trianni & Cagno 2012), and in an earlier international study involving enterprises from various manufacturing sectors in The Netherlands, Slovak Repu”
Barriers to energy efficiency improvement and decision-making behavior in Thai industry (2010, background): “In these studies the barriers are classified into three major categories, which are: 1— economic barriers, 2—behavioral barriers, and 3— organizational barriers (Rohdin and Thollander 2006; Rohdin et al. 2007; Thollander and Ottosson 2008).”
Energy management practices in Swedish energy-intensive industries (2010, background): “However, research shows that it is not always installed in manufacturing companies and even where it exists it is not always used for proper energy cost allocation [27].”
An energy efficient Swedish pulp and paper industry – exploring barriers to and driving forces for cost-effective energy efficiency investments (2008, background): “Previous research in other Swedish industrial sectors has shown this driving force and people with real ambition to be the highest ranked driving forces for energy efficiency (Rohdin & Thollander, 2006a; Rohdin et al., 2007; Thollander et al., 2007).”
Barriers to and driving forces for industrial energy efficiency improvements in African industries – a case study of Ghana's largest industrial area (2013, background): “In this context, a barrier can be defined as a postulated mechanism that inhibits investments in technologies that are both energy-efficient and (apparently) economically efficient (Sorrell et al., 2004; Rohdin and Thollander, 2006; SPRU, 2000).”
Adoption of energy-efficiency measures in SMEs—An empirical analysis based on energy audit data from Germany (2012, result): “In contrast, in a case study of Swedish non-energy-intensive manufacturing companies by Rohdin and Thollander(2006), access to capital was not found to be a major barrier to energy efficiency.”
An interdisciplinary perspective on industrial energy efficiency (2010, background): “An overview of empirical barriers to energy efficiency identified by Swedish studies is presented in Table 2 [28–30].”
Barriers to and drivers for energy efficiency in the Swedish foundry industry (2007, background): “Other studies indicate that larger organisations and companies within a group may face barriers different than the ones faced by smaller, privately owned firms (Rohdin and Thollander, 2005; Velthuijsen, 1995).”