The Impact of Industrial Energy Efficiency on Economic and Social Indicators

Abstract

Inclusive and sustainable industrial development implies environmental friendly industrial growth with positive implications for social targets such as employment generation. One of the most important options available to policymakers for reducing CO2 emissions is industrial energy efficiency, which is particularly relevant for the discussion on green industrialization. Despite this intuitive concept, the economics measurement toolkit still lacks a methodological framework to analyse the extent to which energy efficiency interventions can generate simultaneous economic, environmental and employment-related improvements to boost inclusive and sustainable industrial development. This study fills this gap by introducing an original approach based on input-output tables to estimate the impact of improvements in industrial energy efficiency on value added, employment and energy savings among industries in the Republic of North Macedonia. The results show that triple dividends are possible in terms of inclusive and sustainable industrial development. Whereas a positive impact on employment is found in every scenario, a positive outcome in terms of value added essentially depends on the country's capacity to produce goods that accommodate firms' increasing demand from their use of energy cost savings.

Вплив Енергоефективності Лісогосподарських Підприємств На Показники Використання Земель Лісогосподарського Призначення

“…Мета. Мета [4] визначили вплив промислової енергоефективності на економічні та соціальні показники. Учені C-C. Lu та I-F. Lin [5] охарактеризували роль лісів в аспекті підвищення енергоефективності, Н. Пришляк [6] обґрунтувала енергоефективність з позицій перспектив розвитку біогазових технологій.…”

Combining desiccant dehumidification with Hot Air and Microwave food drying: a sustainable and economical method to produce dried snacks

“…25% of the total energy spent on food processing goes solely into drying 22 . The data indicates that while drying of food items is one of the most important and scalable methods to preserve food, it also has a massive impact on the climate 22 . Thus, it is imperative that the academia and industry working in food preservation focus on drying methods that are low-cost, ecofriendly and produce quality product that incentivizes small and medium scale producers with high pro t margins and low operational cost.…”

“…While most of the world dries its food by simply leaving it out in the sun with some sort of porous or transparent covering to keep the pests away 20 , the dried food products that meet consumers' nutritional and cosmetic criteria to pass as 'snacks' are produced with energy ine cient processes like Freeze Drying, Osmotic Dehydration or Vacuum Drying 21 . 25% of the total energy spent on food processing goes solely into drying 22 . The data indicates that while drying of food items is one of the most important and scalable methods to preserve food, it also has a massive impact on the climate 22 .…”