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Industrial Energy Efficiency Towards Green Deal Transition. Case of Latvia.
Abstract Energy efficiency policy has been one of the European Union top priorities for decades and will continue to play a vital role in the next 10 years with the introduction of The Clean energy for all Europeans. Likewise, in Latvia energy efficiency has been given high priority; however, the energy efficiency targets for industry has lacked ambitions. This research focuses on evaluating the Latvian industrial energy efficiency policy using top-down approach and benchmarking energy intensity of Latvian industry to the average of the European Union’s. Results confirm that on average Latvian industry consumes 2.6 times more energy to produce the same amount of value added compared to the average in the European Union; however, every saved energy unit in Latvia would save twice less $ CO_{2} $ emissions considering already largely decarbonized energy mix. In the spotlights of the Green Deal proposed by the European Commission, much higher contribution in terms of $ CO_{2} $ reduction and energy efficiency will be expected from the industry. Nevertheless, energy efficiency targets for Latvian industry should be sector-specific, separately addressing $ CO_{2} $ intensive sectors, and non-intensive $ CO_{2} $ sectors with low added value.
Industrial Energy Efficiency Towards Green Deal Transition. Case of Latvia.
Abstract Energy efficiency policy has been one of the European Union top priorities for decades and will continue to play a vital role in the next 10 years with the introduction of The Clean energy for all Europeans. Likewise, in Latvia energy efficiency has been given high priority; however, the energy efficiency targets for industry has lacked ambitions. This research focuses on evaluating the Latvian industrial energy efficiency policy using top-down approach and benchmarking energy intensity of Latvian industry to the average of the European Union’s. Results confirm that on average Latvian industry consumes 2.6 times more energy to produce the same amount of value added compared to the average in the European Union; however, every saved energy unit in Latvia would save twice less $ CO_{2} $ emissions considering already largely decarbonized energy mix. In the spotlights of the Green Deal proposed by the European Commission, much higher contribution in terms of $ CO_{2} $ reduction and energy efficiency will be expected from the industry. Nevertheless, energy efficiency targets for Latvian industry should be sector-specific, separately addressing $ CO_{2} $ intensive sectors, and non-intensive $ CO_{2} $ sectors with low added value.
Industrial Energy Efficiency Towards Green Deal Transition. Case of Latvia.
Locmelis, Kristaps (author) / Blumberga, Andra (author) / Bariss, Uldis (author) / Blumberga, Dagnija (author) / Balode, Lauma (author)
2021
Article (Journal)
English
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