Academic papers
Value multiple benefits - Improve energy efficiency!
Aug 2019 [Academic papers]
Multiple Benefits is an approach to identify, value and communicate the strategic impacts of investments that improve energy performance. In this context strategic means how an energy-efficiency project contributes to an
organization’s competitiveness in performing their core business. This paper presents the underlying methodology and the toolkit developed to test in pilot projects during the course of the Multiple Benefits project.
Play the game: learning about energy efficiency can be fun – seriously!
Jun 2019 [Academic papers]
Classical training does not develop the skills needed to deal with the multidisciplinary aspects of energy-efficiency
measures. It is also well known in pedagogical science that in professional training, the motivation for learning increases
when participants can directly apply what they are taught. This paper introduces a new serious game developed as a
training tool for a capacity-building programme on the multiple benefits of energy efficiency.
Multiple benefits of energy efficiency at the firm level: a literature review
Jun 2019 [Academic papers]
The multiple benefits of energy efficiency for individual businesses have not received sufficient research attention. For firms, these non-energy benefits may be critically important to their investment decisions. This paper presents initial results from a project investigating the firm-level strategic benefits of energy efficiency.