Updating evidence on energy efficiency potential for UK industry
Summary
DESNZ publishes updated evidence on energy efficiency potential across UK industry, updating 2015 roadmaps that considered efficiency alongside fuel switching and carbon capture. The research covers process-level efficiency measures only, excluding building-level or behavioural interventions.
Why it matters
This is redistributive — treating symptoms of expensive energy rather than addressing supply or market structure. Industrial energy efficiency programmes exist because energy costs are high, but they queue rather than price the underlying scarcity.
Key facts
- •Updates 2015 Industrial Decarbonisation and EE Roadmaps to 2050
- •Covers process-level efficiency measures only
- •Excludes building-level and behavioural measures
Areas affected
Related programmes
Memo
This work updates the evidence relating to the potential for improvements in energy efficiency in UK industry. In this context, EE reduces the delivered energy consumed per unit of production of industrial output. This report updates the 2015 Industrial Decarbonisation and EE Roadmaps to 2050 , which considered energy-related levers available to decarbonise industry, including EE , fuel switching and carbon capture, utilisation and storage. This research relates to EE measures available within the industrial process only, and does not include building level or behavioural EE measures.