Industrial energy efficiency: the need for investment decision support from a manager perspective

By Peter Sandberg, Mats Söderström. 2003

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Make it strategic! Financial investment logic is not enough (2011, background): “…large Swedish energy-intensive companies, Sandberg and Söderström note that “profitability is far from being the only investment criterion, though it is very important” and that certain investments have not been decided upon because they were not core business (Sandberg and Söderström 2003: 1627).”
A framework to characterize energy efficiency measures (2014, background): “Anything, including a seemingly simple EEM, that can be perceived as threatening this primary motivation needs to be carefully brought to the decision-maker [31].”
Barriers to energy efficiency improvement and decision-making behavior in Thai industry (2010, background): “While we also believe that those two steps are very important in the whole process of the realization of an energy efficiency project to be implemented, one more crucial step is motivation (du Pont 1998; Sandberg and Söderström 2003; Zilahy 2004).”
Investment in energy efficiency: do the characteristics of investments matter? (2012, background): “…plays an important role in the decision-making surrounding investments (de Groot et al. 2001; Harris et al. 2000; Parker et al. 2000; Sæle et al. 2005; Sandberg and Söderström 2003; Sardianou 2008; Sorrell et al. 2000; Velthuijsen 1993; Weber 2000, 1997).7 6 Which may be a positive decision, a…”