M_KEY – Management as a key driver of energy performance
Responsable du projet |
Catherine Cooremans
Milad Zarin Nejadan Rolf Iten |
Collaborateur | Alain Schönenberger |
Résumé |
In many companies there are still considerable potentials to reduce
energy consumption. Measures to be taken to tap these potentials
generally require investing in new equipment. Yet,
energy-efficiency (EE) investments - even when highly profitable -
remain often undecided. Many studies have identified and discussed
the various market and organizational barriers, that hamper
decisions, and hence investments, in EE. The proposed research
project bases on a new model of decision-making that leads to
re-designing the organizational barriers model and to proposing a
new explanation of the energy-efficiency gap. According to this new
approach, two “meta-barriers” encompass symptom barriers and
actually explain the energy-efficiency gap: The perceived
non-strategic character of energy-efficiency investments and the
various cultural influences which drive organizations and their
decision makers to consider energy-efficiency investments as weakly
strategic, beyond possible objective reasons. The main research
hypothesis is that energy management (e.g. established in the form
of an energy management system based on ISO 50001) significantly
raises the companies’ ability to perceive the strategic relevance
of energy-efficiency investments. Thus energy management induces
positive decisions regarding these investments and, ultimately,
increases the energy performance of a firm. The project aims at
analysing the impacts of energy management as a driving factor in
this process through a mix of survey, interviews and case studies
among Swiss large-scale energy consumers. The results of the
research work should help to better understand the determinants of
energy-efficiency investments. This, in turn, will allow conceiving
and proposing adequate policy measures and regulations able to
improve the energy performance of firms. |
Mots-clés |
energy efficiency of firms |
Type de projet | Recherche appliquée |
Domaine de recherche | energy efficiency |
Source de financement | FNS |
Etat | Terminé |
Début de projet | 1-10-2014 |
Fin du projet | 30-9-2017 |
Budget alloué | 403'619 |
Autre information |
En partenariat avec INFRAS |
Contact | Milad Zarin-Nejadan |