“…Evidently, it is more accurate to evaluate deployed energy efficiency, especially since the Swedish energy audit program also involved large companies and thus may receive many more suggested measures while the relative potential may be higher. Furthermore, results from the Swedish national EEN program, EENet, was presented in a final report, where the achieved energy efficiency was stated as 14% (Nyström and Bokinge, 2021), which is also higher compared to the mentioned energy audit programmes. However, it should be noted that the free-rider effect was not estimated for the project and therefore not included when attributing the energy efficiency to the programme.…”