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Shaping a Sustainable Industry Guidance for Best Practices & Policy Recommendations Final report Written by Erwin CORNELIS Jan – 2020 This study was carried out for the European Commission by Tractebel Engie under the contract N° ENER/C3/2017-513/01 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Energy Directorate C - Renewables, Research and Innovation, Energy Efficiency Unit C3: Energy Efficiency: Policy and Financing Contact: Jan Ciampor E-mail: [email protected] European Commission B-1049 Brussels Shaping a Sustainable Industry Guidance for Best Practices & Policy Recommendations EUROPE DIRECT is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) The information given is free, as are most calls (though some operators, phone boxes or hotels may charge you) LEGAL NOTICE This document has been prepared for the European Commission however it reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://www.europa.eu). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2020 PDF ISBN 978-92-76-18111-8 doi: 10.2833/808111 MJ-01-20-247-EN-N © European Union, 2020 The reuse policy of European Commission documents is implemented based on Commission Decision 2011/833/EU of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents (OJ L 330, 14.12.2011, p. 39). Except otherwise noted, the reuse of this document is authorised under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This means that reuse is allowed provided appropriate credit is given and any changes are indicated. Shaping a Sustainable Industry – Guidance for Best Practices & Policy Recommendations Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................... 7 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 9 1.1. Introduction to the project ............................................................................. 9 1.2. Aim and structure of this document ................................................................. 9 1.3. Task 1: Selection of sector to initiate round tables with.................................... 10 1.4. Task 2: Conclusions of the round table meetings ............................................. 11 1.5. Task 4: Lessons learnt from this series of round table meetings ........................ 12 2. INVESTMENTS IN ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY: BARRIERS AND DRIVERS ...................................................................................................... 14 2.1. Barriers to energy efficiency investments ....................................................... 14 2.1.1. Overview of barriers: insights from scientific literature ........................ 14 2.1.2. Relation between barriers faced and size of company ......................... 16 2.2. Barriers to renewable energy investments ...................................................... 18 2.3. Drivers for energy efficiency investments ....................................................... 21 2.4. Drivers for investments and renewable energy ............................................... 22 2.5. Best practice examples of companies who have overcome barriers .................... 24 2.5.1. Best practice example 1: Alpro ........................................................ 25 2.5.2. Best practice example 2: Oleon ........................................................ 26 2.5.3. Best practice example 3: Mars ......................................................... 27 2.5.4. Best practice example 4: Astellas ..................................................... 28 2.5.5. Best practice example 5: AB InBev ................................................... 29 3. POLICIES AND MEASURES ..................................................................................... 31 3.1. Overview of implemented policies and measures on industrial energy efficiency ................................................................................................... 31 3.2. Use of public funding to finance energy efficiency measures ............................. 34 3.3. Lessons learnt from some selected policies and measures ................................ 35 3.3.1. Analysis of the barriers, drivers and actors ........................................ 36 3.3.2. Industrial energy savings triggered by Energy Efficiency Obligation schemes ........................................................................ 37 3.3.3. Effects of the energy audit obligation for large companies in Germany ....................................................................................... 41 3.3.4. Energy Management as a driver for improving a company’s energy performance ....................................................................... 42 3.3.5. Long-term agreements in the Netherlands: the complexity of the decision-making process for energy efficiency investments .................. 43 3.3.6. Audit and retrofit programmes for electric engines ............................. 45 3.3.7. Energy Efficiency networks .............................................................. 49 3.3.8. The Energy Coach Programme of the City of Ghent, Belgium ............... 50 4. WHAT CAN THE EU DO? ........................................................................................ 52 4.1. Working with companies .............................................................................. 52 4.1.1. Assessment of the effectiveness of the IPPC-Directive on the requirements on an efficient use of energy ........................................ 52 4.1.2. Standardisation of Corporate Climate Responsibility strategies ............. 53 4.1.3. Establishment of technical knowledge centres to support companies ..................................................................................... 54 INDEERE/4AA/0687825/000/0117/01/2020 5/79 Shaping a Sustainable Industry – Guidance for Best Practices & Policy Recommendations 4.2.1. Revision of the regulation on industrial product groups under the Ecodesign and energy labelling framework ........................................ 56 4.2.2. Regulation of the embedded carbon of products ................................. 56 4.3. Working with EU Member States ................................................................... 57 4.3.1. Pan-EU study on best-practice policies stimulating energy efficiency and renewable energy ...................................................... 57 4.3.2. Creating a market for waste heat from industry ................................. 57 4.4. Economic stimuli ......................................................................................... 58 4.4.1. Carbon credits for supplied waste heat .............................................. 58 APPENDICES ............................................................................................................... 60 Disclaimer: This study was ordered and paid for by the European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy, Contract no. ENER/C3/2017-513/01/SI2.778443. The information and views set out in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Commission. The Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this study. Neither the Commission nor any person acting on the Commission's behalf may be held responsible for the use which may be made of the information contained therein. INDEERE/4AA/0687825/000/0117/01/2020 6/79 SHAPING A SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRY GUIDANCE FOR BEST PRACTICES & POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS BUILDING ON CONCLUSIONS OF FOUR ROUND TABLE MEETINGS WITH THE FOOD & BEVERAGE SECTOR The food and beverage sector was chosen due to its diversity in size and composition and relevance for all EU Member States. Yet, the insights generated EXECUTIVE can be used to characterise the industry as a whole. The key points from these meetings are also confirmed by studies that identify SUMMARY barriers for investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy: Much like the ten previous warmest • Insufficient access to reliable information on technical solutions and their summers on record, the debate on costs; how to decarbonise the European • Lack of awareness of the potential for energy intensity reduction or use of society is more heated than ever. In renewables; 2018, the European Commission • Behavioural aspects such as having other priorities reducing the company’s adopted its Long Term Strategy by interest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; 2050 and is looking to involve all • Organisational aspects of which the lack of time to investigate the potential stakeholders, including the industry. and diverging interests within the company; The European Commission has • Insufficient access to competence (inside or from outside the company) to initiated a series of round tables over investigate the potential or to support project implementation; the course of 2018-2019 for the • Lack of technologies that would be commercially available or adapted for representatives of the industry (as announced in its Strategy on Heating the company; and Cooling (COM(2016) 51 final)) to • Economic barriers, of which the low availability of capital and low return on discuss the barriers