There is a large value in making the industry more energy efficient. The benefit is not only energy savings and reduction of CO2 emissions, the industry also becomes more competitive due to lower costs for energy, and often also improved production rate and product quality due to positive side effects when processes are made more efficient. Several factors influence efficiency, the most important ones are presented, as well as advices for an assessment and actions for improvements.
As an example a steam energy fingerprint of a paper machine is given. In the assessment energy flows are quantified, energy users in the paper machine are benchmarked and actions for improving efficiency are suggested.