Interviews with the Advisors

A short overview on Romanian policies about energy efficiency Romania is fully committed to fulfilling the national and European targets regarding the “3x20” objectives. If the target for renewables energies has already been achieved is not the same situation for CO2 emissions reduction and energy efficiency (EE) targets. The EE obligations assumed by Romania consist in ...

1) Which are the difficulties that you find to access to funds for energy efficiency? Slovenia is small market for the banks and therefore needs relatively high support by state to achieve national energy efficiency goals in industry. There are a lot of financial barriers for companies ranging from limited borrowing capacity to the lack of proper energy management data. 2) ...

1) Which are the trends of large national industrial consumers as far as energy efficiency is concerned? From the perspective of the industrial energy consumers there should be no biding target for energy efficiency for sectors covered by the EU ETS. Setting absolute targets for energy consumption reduction is not a proper major for energy efficiency achievements and hinders e...

Which the trends of industrial technologies as far as energy efficiency is concerned? Design parameters close to the limit required for any industrial application Use of components, materials and accessories with optimum capacity and overall size. Dimensioning of current ways to the maximum limit thermal endurance. The use of intelligent software to minimize operating...

    1) What are the feedbacks that you have by your national energy efficiency policies? The feedback for the implementation of the National EE policies is received by several information channels as: 1.    Policies in Service sector: −    Annual reports on the implementation of the State bodies and local authorities energy efficiency programmes - not later than the 1st day ...