The Food&Drink Industry is the largest manufacturing sector in Europe with an annual turnover of €1,048 trillion, half of which is generated by SMEs (49,3%). The sector is a leading employer in the EU manufacturing sector (15.0%) employing about 4.3 million people and is highly fragmented comprising some 287,000 companies (Eurostat).
Food production and consumption...
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The Project
The project structure
The overall Work Plan stands on a quite linear and logical sequence of activities, in obedience to the principle that too complex structures are to be avoided, as often generates hindrances difficult to tackle. The sequential activities find their correspondence in as many Work packages.
The following scheme summarizes the interactions of the work packages:
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Expected results
The expected outcomes of EU-MERCI project are:
• Selection of exemplary cases and best practices that, in a specific industry sector, may lead to the most effective and efficient EE solutions, considering both the technical and economic aspects;
• For selected specific industry sectors, production of methods of evaluation of savings and algorithms, common procedures (e.g. con...
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Objectives
The overarching objective of EU-MERCI is to grow the energy efficiency in the European industry, by exploiting and expanding the opportunity offered by the Efficiency Obligation Schemes and/or Alternative measures imposed to the Member States (MSs) by the 2012/27/EU Directive and, specifically, by the Art. 7 of the EED: “Energy efficiency obligation schemes”.
To this extent, E...
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The EU-MERCI project
EU-MERCI stands for EU coordinated MEthods and procedures based on Real Cases for the effective implementation of policies and measures supporting energy efficiency in the Industry.
Its main aim has been to provide industrial enterprises and policy makers with best practices and tools to increase the competiveness of the EU industry by improving the efficient use of energy.
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