Upper Austria

UPPER AUSTRIA RESTRICTED REPORT ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRIAL SECTORS WITH INTENSIVE USE OF HEATING AND COOLING 1.

Description of the domain-area of intervention and reasons for this choice

The market analysis is based on four parts. The first part is an overview about the actual figures about energy in Austria and Upper Austria based on official statistical data and shall give an overview about the status quo. The second part was a questionnaire circulated to partners of Clusterland Upper Austria and to participants of events like business - breakfasts and plant visits.

The third part was deduced from personal interviews during our regular contacts with local authorities and companies in the last year (73 interviews in total). In a final forth part the building of 2 focus groups is planned to concentrate on two branches. The questionnaire and the interviews were done in the branches food, machinery, plastics, paper and wood, chemistry and construction, because these are dominating in Upper Austria. The two focus groups will concentrate on food and plastics, because these are industries with intensive use of heating and cooling.

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Analysis of energy consumption in domain-area: a. through yearly data issued by distributors of energy (gas and electricity), others

We can see that Upper Austria is with about 49.000 TJ electricity austrias biggest electricity consumer. Upper Austria is a very strong economic region with a very low unemployment rate.

With the gas consumption it is very simillar to the electricity consumption. Here upper austria is on the second degree with a consumption of round 39.500 TJ gas a year. When we have a look at the sectors which are the greatest consumer of electricity we see the manufacturing sector on the first degree with 96.150 TJ needed electricity, followed by the private households with an electricity demand of rearly 61.500 TJ. The gas consume looks nearly the same like electricity. The greatest gas consumer is the manufacturing sector and on the second degree are the private households.

These two consumers need more than 80 percent of the entire gas consumption in Austria.

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b. on responses to the survey questionnaire sent to sample SMEs Gas and electricity are the main energy forms used, RE, where used, forms only a minor part of the energy mix.

Question 1: What kind of energy do you use in your company?

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Indicators of energy consumption In four tables a detailed view on oil, gas, renewables and electricity is summed for Austria and Upper Austria.

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Existence and willingness of SMEs to invest GBEFACTORY

The very interesting result of the interviews with local authorities (which can represent willingness of SMEs in a relative good manner) was that local authorities identify a lot of potentials for renewable energy. An overview about the answers can be seen in the following graphic.

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Considerations on the potentials and possible early GBEFACTORY interventions

From the companies more than a third of the companies expect renewable energy as a basis for a notable part of the necessary energy supply. Forms of technical solutions for using renewable energy were supposed to be photovoltaic, wind energy, bio mass and bio gas. Important will also be energy recuperation and energy efficiency.

Looking at this graphic we can make a sum up and we see that 1. many companies plan projects dealing direct or indirect with energy supply (85 energy supply projects out of 128 projects planned in the next three years) 2. 9 projects deal direct with production of renewable energy 3. energy efficiency in buildings and in production are the absolute leaders 4. many projects like lighting optimization, heat recuperation or recycling management are basis projects for implementation of renewable energy in the future The final result of the market analysis for companies up to now is an extreme high interest and demand of technical solutions for using energy efficiency and renewable energy in production buildings as well as in the production process itself.

Final conclusion: The demand of technical solutions is high and the variation in the technical solutions is even higher.

This market analysis is now the basis for the creation of 2 focus groups with representative people, each focus group minimum 7 participants. Goal of the focus groups are comparisons and conclusions drawn from the data collected through questionnaires and personal interviews for indentifying key perceptions and awareness on the issues of GEB Factory.

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