Statistical Data from Energy Audits

Data from implemented energy auditing projects

The Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE) has subsidized the energy auditing of the service and industrial sectors since 1992. MEE’s subsidies for energy audits from 1992-2007 was €23.1 million. The cost savings each year by the end of 2007 from audits for the service sector and others than stages 1 and 2 of the process industry was about €23 million.

Each year 0.7 TW of energy is saved, of which over 75% has been from industry. The corresponding accumulated cost savings for 1992-2007 was €360 million and energy saving over 11 TW, of which just over 70% was from industry.

The follow-up the impacts and implementation of the 1 and 2 stage analyses of the process industry took place mainly in relation to the follow-up of energy efficiency agreements. Only part of the recommended measures are available yet in the reporting phase of the process industry’s two-stage energy analysis in the transferable savings estimate of the audits’ follow-up database. The part of these measures stored by the auditing follow-up database achieved via the MEE subsidized process industrial analyses are in addition to the saving mentioned above about 0.65 TW in energy savings.

The accumulative corresponding saving for 1997-2007 has even been over 7 TW. The overall savings impact of the process industry’s analyses must be reported via the annual reporting of industrial energy efficiency agreements, and it is appreciably greater than mentioned before.

According to the investigation carried out on the basis of the 2007 annual reporting of energy savings agreements, about 70% of saving potentials in the service sector and 50-60% in the SME is very likely to be harnessed.