The industry’s part of energy consumption represents a considerable percentage that leaves governments unable to meet their energy transition goals without the contribution of energy efficiency in the industrial sector.

As a result, small and large businesses as well are facing many challenges. On the one hand, they must fulfill various requirements because of the legal provisions. On the other hand, they must act strategically in order to exploit the opportunities of the energy transition and its effects on their energy systems. Last but not least, it is important for these companies to remain competitive by reducing the energy costs thanks energy efficiency.

A well thought-out energy management, a use of modern technologies, and a consideration of the renovation potential of the company’s own buildings reduce costs and ensure the long-term competitiveness of businesses.

Inspired by this rather turbulent situation in businesses, Optimo has set itself the goal of supporting them to better cope with the changes due to the energy transition. Thus and based on its German expertise, Optimo develops strategies and initiates model projects to help companies systematically increase their efficiency potential and thus reduce their energy costs.

Small and medium-sized businesses, in particular, often fear the investments needed to introduce energy efficiency solutions for optimal energy consumption, even if the latter generally do not need a long time to be amortized. In addition, insufficient knowledge about energy saving potentials and the implementation of energy efficiency measures let businesses restrained from doing the step towards the world of energy efficiency.

To shed light on these ambiguities and make them disappear for our clients, we do not only provide them with adequate clarifications on the appropriate energy efficiency measures for their operations, but we propose them also “model projects” when available. In line with these projects, other companies have already developed strategies and successful concepts in the same sector of activity. All this helps our clients to gain confidence in energy efficiency projects.

A great saving potential in the industry sector resides in the avoidance of lost energy in warm-up processes. The energy consumption due to warm-up processes can be greatly reduced if energy efficiency measures are well implemented:

• On a one hand, these measures include processes and systems optimization, recovery of waste heat, and the reduction of heat loss through better insulation of thermal equipment in the process.
• On a second hand and in the context of space and water heating, these measures include efficient facilities for heat production such as condensing boilers and an energy efficient optimization of the building envelope.
• On a third hand and as far as electrical applications are concerned, these measures concern the use of high efficiency motors, modern lighting technologies, sophisticated ICT applications, optimized air compressor, etc.

One very interesting and useful practice that has an excellent impact on energy efficiency is that of using solar thermal systems and solar electrical systems for the production of energy and this especially in a very rich region in solar radiation like some sunny regions in the US.