Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency for Business Webinar

Webinar

Overview

Energy efficiency investments often pay back quickly through lower energy bills, improving margins and reducing exposure to energy price volatility. But for businesses, they bring many additional benefits beyond energy savings.

For example, energy efficiency can improve productivity, reduce maintenance costs and lower the need for input materials. Efficient and electrified equipment operates more reliably and with less stress, leading to greater stability, less downtime and fewer production defects. Strong sustainability performance can enhance brand reputation, while improved indoor working conditions can significantly benefit worker health, well-being and productivity.

The aim of the IEA’s work on the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency for Business is to make the systematic capture of these benefits in investment decisions common practice. Accurately reflecting the full value of energy efficiency is crucial to achieving this.

This webinar builds on the IEA’s recent report, The Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency for Business. It showcases several approaches that can help turn these opportunities into practice and enable businesses to make the most of the wide range of benefits that energy efficiency can bring to their operations. Finally, we will explore a key question: what is the missing piece? What is needed for the multiple benefits of energy efficiency to become mainstream in business decision making?

Agenda

Time

Session

15:00

Opening remarks

Dr. Brian Motherway,

Head of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Inclusive Transitions,

International Energy Agency

15:05

Keynote: Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency for Business

Fabian Voswinkel,

International Energy Agency

15:20

MBENEFITS – Making carbon neutrality your profitable reality

Dr. Catherine Cooremans, Ipso Facto

15:50

MBENEFITS Q&A

16:00

JUSTIFI – Unlocking value in energy productivity projects

Sarah Cooney, Jibo Sanyal, National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR)

16:25

JUSTIFI Q&A

16:35

Assessing non-Energy Benefits at the energy-saving measure Level: evidence from European industrial energy audits through the Audit2Measure project

Nikos Vourgidis, National Technical University of Athens

16:50

Audit2Measure Q&A

17:00

European Standardisation of Non-energy benefits for CEN CENELEC

Prof. Dr. Clemens Rohde, Wuppertal Institute

17:15

CEN CENELEC Standardisation Q&A

17:25

Panel discussion: Making Multiple Benefits mainstream

Moderation: Emma Mooney, International Energy Agency

17:55

Closing remarks

Fabian Voswinkel, International Energy Agency