PATHWAY TO INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY
April 1st, 2012
BY MICHAEL KOSMIDES
AN INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) and Institute for Industrial Productivity (IPP) report released yesterday (April 17) has advised that utility customers are more likely to improve their energy efficiency if government conservation schemes are consensual rather than mandatory. The IEA and the IIP examined the voluntary (or long-term) agreements between energy authorities and industrial end-users as implemented in Ireland, Sweden and Denmark since the 1990s. According to the report one main reason for the success of these is that do not ...
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