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In the introduction, a connection is made between industrial energy efficiency and the global problems of scarcity with 7.5 billion people on earth today. Energy efficiency is not understood as “saving at any price”, but as the targeted and economical use of all production factors—in addition to energy, also labour, capital and raw materials. Energy efficiency is therefore part of raw material efficiency and thus a contribution to sustainability.
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Blesl, M., Kessler, A. (2021). Introduction. In: Energy Efficiency in Industry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-63923-8_1
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