Barriers

Investment analysis & intervention implementation​

Generation of interest​

Knowledge of inefficiencies and opportunities​

Willingness to invest​

Behavioral

Organizational​

Barriers related to competences​

Awareness​

Information barriers​

Economic

Technology-related barriers​

Intervention implemented, energy efficiency improved.​

Research of inefficiencies and opportunities

Status quo​

Barriers of industrial energy efficiency

• Lack of awareness.

• Low status of energy efficiency;
• Divergent interests;
• Lack of time.

• Inertia;
• Other priorities.

• Difficulty in Identifying Inefficiencies.

• Low status of energy efficiency;
• Complex desicion chain;
• Lack of time.

• Low capital availability;
• Intervention related risks.

• Technologies not adequate;
• Technologies are not available.

• Imperfect evaluation criteria;
• Lack of sharing the objectives.

• Identifying the inefficiencies;
• Identifying the opportunities.
• Difficulty in gathering external skills.

• Low capital availability;
• Pre-intervention costs.

• Low status of energy efficiency;
• Complex decision chain;
• Lack of internal control;
• Lack of time.

• Lack of competences in implementing the interventions

• Lack of info on costs of benefits;
• Info is not clear by technology suppliers;
• Trustworthiness of info source;
• Info issues on energy contracts.

• Low capital availability;
• Interventions not sufficiently profitable.