Innovation to bring energy and resource efficiency on the industry main agenda

Panel: 2. Sustainable production design and supply chain initiatives

Authors:
Hélène Riviere-Kaluc, ADEME, France
Frédéric Streiff, ADEME, France

Abstract

To answer energy transition stakes and helps industry's competitivity, energy efficiency can be the answer. But the challenge of energy efficiency will be embraced by industry only if there is an offer of competitive équipements, services, engineering that combines energy performance with productivity, quality, security and reliability.

To do so, providers of energy efficient industrial solutions, have to answer to clients requirements.

This presentation will describe french industry through some energy ratios and economic facts and figures and put it in balance with other European ratios and figures. It is observed that there has been a good progress in French industrial energy performance throughout the year but that it is somehow stagnant. Several factors can explain this trend: price of energy that is lower, financial difficulties for industrial investment.

We will then present the prospective scenario with details per sector on energy saving potentials by 2030. This scenario concludes that a 20% improvement in energy performance can be achieved by the french manufacturing industry by 2030. We will then develop which measures are taken in France for the industry: white certificates, energy audit programmes, energy management systems implementation, funding investment in heat recovery equipmeent to recover industriel heat.

We will conclude by describing the current incentives for innovative technologies to be tested in real conditions and deployed in the industry.