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Energy Efficiency Reloaded: How European SMEs Are Driving Sustainability and Savings
The Power of Small Businesses in Europe's Energy Landscape Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Europe's economy, accounting for 98.9% of all businesses. While individually…
Read Full articleThe difference between implementing and benefitting from ISO50001
This short article describes a common issue many companies are facing. ISO50001 has become a widely implemented standard in industry. However, the energy management system often exists only on paper resulting in nothing else than additional administrative burden and costs. That´s obvioulsy a waste of time and money. The reason? ISO50001 is a framework only. HE Consulting briefly describes what is…
Read Full Business PracticeEnergy Management System in steel industry
SIJ Metal Ravne is one of the biggest steel companies in Europe. The company decided to run an energy management project with the following purposes: 1- Monitor and analyze real-time energy consumption, 2- Define and analyze key energy efficiency indicators, 3- Implement an energy management system, 4- Develop benchmarking and methodology for savings calculations (IJS), 5- Introduce an energy…
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Is REPowerEU able to accelerate transition to renewable energies and improve energy security?
The European Commission continues releasing extensive legislative and strategic packages one after the other: Fit for 55, Hydrogen and Gas Package, REPowerEU. The REPowerEU package was a quick…
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Europe’s energy-intensive industries coping with covid crisis while trying to stay on sustainable path
Europe’s industry has significant challenges today. We are fortunate that the European Union provides a robust policy framework for industry that covers many themes: climate change, energy efficiency,…
Read Full articleEnergy Management System in glass industry
Steklarna Hrastnik Company is the leading glass products manufacturer in Slovenia. The company has a strong environmental regulation compliance strategy and is dedicated to optimizing and reducing energy consumption. To comply with European energy regulation and meet the energy consumption reduction target, Steklarna Hrastnik decided to carry out an energy management project. The project included…
Read Full Business PracticeEnergy Management System for hospitals
The Vinzenz Group is one of the largest private providers of care facilities in Austria. To comply with European Energy Efficiency Regulations and to meet energy consumption reduction targets, the Vinzenz Group decided to carry out an energy management project. Main objectives were: 1- Unified energy management system to monitor, accumulate and analyse energy consumption data for all the…
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Transitioning industrial zones into hubs for circularity
University of Twente’s Sustainable Circular Economy research team, led by Devrim Murat Yazan is spearheading the innovative Horizon-Europe Innovation Action project, entitled ‘ Sustainable Circular…
Read Full articleEnergy Culture – Improving industrial energy efficiency through behavioral change
Despite the efforts made over the last 20 years, research suggests that there remains an important potential to reduce energy consumption in energy intensive industry by 15-25%. The same research…
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ChatGPT and the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act
The European Union (EU) is considering a new legal framework that aims to significantly bolster regulations on the development and use of artificial intelligence. The proposed legislation, the…
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