Reducing the energy consumption of Indian iron and steel industry through enhancing energy efficiency: Role of regional coordination

Abstract

This article aims at estimating the energy efficiency of the iron and steel industry in production theoretic approach. Taking a regional perspective, we have done a meta‐frontier analysis combined with the slack‐based measure of data envelopment analysis (DEA). The results depict huge energy efficiency gap exists across four regions. The northern region is the best performer under group frontier than meta‐frontier DEA. South and west regions are relatively well‐performed under meta‐frontier than group frontier while the eastern region performs moderately well under both frontiers. The results show the significant energy efficiency improvement opportunities available across regions can be realised through technological advancement and energy management.

Identification of Energy Efficiency Trends in the Context of the Development of Industry 4.0 Using the Polish Steel Sector as an Example

“…Energy saving in the steel industry is closely related to the technology used, the size of the plant, the quality of the raw materials, the price of energy and other fuels (gas, coal), the location of the steel mill relative to the supply of energy and raw materials, the availability of raw materials, legal restrictions on environmental protection, etc. These components result in differences in energy management in individual countries but are a useful for building theoretical comparative models [42] within regions or other sectors in one country (by using data envelopment analysis (DEA) or most often [59], within the processes and technologies of steel production in a given country [43].…”