Industrial Energy Efficiency Technologies and Management Applications in Turkey

Abstract

Efforts to ensure sustainability in energy, reduce foreign dependency and combat climate change require efficient use of energy and energy resources in Turkey as well as in the rest of the world. Implementing environmentally friendly policies and methods in energy production/consumption and creating resource alternatives, and increasing efficiency by avoiding waste has been a policy that has been emphasized in Turkey. Energy efficient technologies in the industry is to use energy with high efficiency and savings without sacrificing production quality. The application of benchmarking methodologies to determine the efficiency of the industrial plant in terms of energy consumption and to compare it with similar enterprises in the same industry will provide a solid basis for the steps to be taken according to the current situation of a particular industrial plant. Therefore, for such a comparative analysis a set of criteria should be determined and applied. For this purpose, there are two main types of criteria that can be used by grouping them as general and sector-specific criteria. In this study, considering both criteria, energy efficiency technologies and management practices that can be applied for different sectors in Turkey have been compiled. Studies conducted in the literature within the scope of good practices in energy efficiency and management for the Textile, Iron-Steel, Cement and Glass sectors were examined, and policy and strategy proposals for the dissemination of these studies to the locomotive sectors in Turkey were discussed.