Enigin Update - Help for EU Industries to Reduce GHG Emissions
EUROPEAN energy-intensive manufacturing industry is facing significant added costs based on their green house gas (GHG) emissions with the introduction of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).
The European Commission is calling for proposals to help GHG intensive industries reduce their Trading Scheme costs, which starts in January 2013, under the Sustainable Industry Low Carbon initiative (SILC).
The initiative consists of a set of sector-specific industrial projects, with the aim of reducing the emissions from the carbon-intensity industries. Each of these projects will be administered by an alliance of industrial stakeholders. The European Union (EU) will co-finance up to 75 percent through grant agreements.
Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President, said: “We need to tackle the problem of Climate Change, but we cannot renounce on industrial production in Europe. Therefore, our initiative intends to help industry to adapt and modernise becoming more energy efficient and competitive on the global markets and to keep employment in the EU.”
The measures that the initiative will include the switch to alternative fuels, the development of abatement techniques or the wider deployment of best practices through smart energy-use and educational tools.
The EU ETS looks to drive investment into low-carbon technologies and energy efficiency by setting a price for each tonne of greenhouse gases emitted, along with introducing the auctioning of emission allowances.
It is accepted that combining these two strategies is a challenge, requiring ingenuity and creativity across the business community. For many processes and manufacturing industries, the main target will be to find innovative and least-cost ways to reduce GHG emissions.
That is why many Enigin Distributors are successful in helping industries to reduce GHG emissions through improving energy efficiency, as they have exclusive access to innovative solutions from Enigin.
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