Energy savings

 Greaterenergyefficiency for the industry ENERGY SAVINGS

The demands for more sustainable forms of production are steadily increasing. We help industrial enterprises identify possible energy savings and navigate the complex rules and regulations in this area.

The potential for energy efficiency improvements may be found in each individual element of the company's production: it may be in the transport systems, the individual process steps, the storage, or the utility installations, such as ventilation and compressed air. Often, operational optimisation in itself is energy-saving and competitiveness-enhancing, and represents a general environmental gain to the benefit of CSR and any sustainability goals.

Our energy consultants have the expertise to analyse the entire process from A-Z and provide a solid basis for decision-making – both identifying the points of impact and providing an overall picture. The business is thus given an overview of possible savings and can use this to choose which operational efficiency improvements can best be implemented in their production line. Consequently, we help propose how the selected solutions can be implemented.

Strategic energy substitution However, our advice on energy savings does not just concern technical processes. This area is highly regulated by laws, rules and taxes that are difficult to navigate around, and the nature of which are continuously changing. The system for CO₂ quotas is just one of many examples. This means that there is a need for good knowledge in this field, which we have built up through our extensive experience.

Our certified energy consultants are specialists in systematising the work process for mandatory energy audit, ensuring that it is adapted to the individual company.

At the same time, it is important to make a long-term perspective, as the future will present additional and new demands. Here we can help establish a strategy that is at the forefront of development. Many companies are facing the need for an energy shift to more sustainable sources of energy and less energy-consuming processes.

Certified energy management If the company wants continuous improvement, we also help them implement energy management that is adapted to the company's own business processes. In addition to the obvious energy and production benefits, another aspect of energy management is that it can increase eligibility for tax subsidies. At present, this mainly concerns PSO tax and surplus heat. Furthermore, energy management replaces the mandatory EU energy certification process for large enterprises.

Grundfos One of the companies we have helped become more energy efficient is Grundfos. The company is the world's largest manufacturer of pumps, which are also the most energy efficient globally. Pumping accounts for a significant share of the world's electricity consumption – so energy efficiency makes a noticeable difference here.

In addition to contributing to the sustainable agenda on the product side, Grundfos has looked internally at what they could do and have reduced the total CO₂ output by around 30 % since 2008, even though the company has increased production by around 40 %. In this context, the company has sought specialist knowledge from various external consultants, including MOE.

Working in close cooperation with Grundfos, we have developed and used a model to anchor work on energy efficiency to the individual factories, while creating an overview of the opportunities to reduce energy consumption at the same time.

Lead Senior in Group EHS, Klaus E. Christensen, sees great value in obtaining assistance from external consultants:

GrundfoshasanambitiontoreduceCO₂ emissions by 50 % compared to 2008 by 2025. If we are to achieve this goal, work on sustainability must be implemented through out the business, and we also need to enter the machine room and analyse the individual components. That is why we need experts whoaremoreproficientthanusinvarious niche areas, says Klaus E. Christensen