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IndustryPLAN is a tool for analysing industrial energy demands of European countries. Its purpose is to open the black box of industry and provide a framework for developing subsector specific analyses on a country-specific as well as a European level. This is done by establishing both disaggregated industry energy demands for all countries of the EU and an extensive catalogue of potential mitigation measures for the future.

Industrial activity globally accounts for up to one-third of the global energy demand, making it a critical part of the energy system. Despite this, energy system models have so far largely de-emphasised the importance of the industrial sector, leaving the industrial energy sector as an unknown black box. This may be for several reasons, including a lack of access to high-quality data for energy demand in the industrial sector, or due to the inherent difficulties of analysing the industrial sector as it is comprised of a multitude of technologies and processes. Future energy system models will, however, need to encompass all energy sectors – not only the electricity and heat sectors – to enable holistic and integrated energy planning for future renewable energy systems.

IndustryPLAN is a tool for analysing industrial energy demands of European countries and takes the “black box” in the industrial energy sector into account. The tool was developed by researchers at Aalborg University and Utrecht University as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a combination of Excel functions and VBA coding, making it accessible to a wide audience. It targets the lack of middle ground between highly site-specific analyses of individual production facilities and generalized nationally aggregated analyses. The purpose of the IndustryPLAN tool is to open the black box of industry and to provide a framework for developing subsector specific analyses on both a country-specific and European level. This is done by establishing both disaggregated industry energy demands for all EU countries and an extensive catalogue of potential mitigation measures for the future.

Applying the energy efficiency first principle by enhancing overall energy-efficiency, the IndustryPLAN tool provides a framework for investigating the industrial energy sector in the context of the renewable energy transition. The user is provided with a flexible platform for developing future energy scenarios in the industry, based on a range of potential energy efficiency measures, electrification measures, and hydrogen fuel shift measures.

The “Industry mitigation scenarios and IndustryPLAN tool results” report present the scenarios resulting from the detailed analysis of the European industrial sector in the sEEnergies project. The scenario results provide the inputs necessary for representing the industry sector in further holistic energy system modelling in tools such as EnergyPLAN.
The scenarios included and presented in the named report are based on two connected reports from the sEEnergies project, namely “sEEnergies D3.1 Assessment of reference scenarios for the industry” and “sEEnergies D3.6 Energy efficiency potentials on top of the frozen efficiency scenario” which provide further documentation on the reference scenario energy demand and the included mitigation measures, respectively. Furthermore, this report is an extension of the previous report “sEEnergies D3.2 Beta version of the model IndustryPLAN”, where a beta version of the IndustryPLAN tool and expected scenarios were presented.
The IndustryPLAN tool and the results presented in these reports are relevant to energy system modellers, energy planning practitioners, and policymakers, as it contribute to the quantification of feasible transition pathways for the industrial sector.

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https://zenodo.org/record/3834201#.YRNwl4gzaUl

Keywords

Energy efficiency, energy saving potentials, Europe, road pricing, scenarios, transportation infrastructure development, urban spatial development, vehicle technologies