Summary and prospects
Efficiency Plus – demonstrating exemplary climate protection and sustainability
The Efficiency Plus project is exemplary for its climate protection and sustainability. The advanced and efficient energy centre, the varied application of renewables, as well as the remodelled production with its lean structures and processes impress with the efficiency potential that can be turned quickly and economically into useful reality in industrial companies with technologies currently available in the market.
Global efficiency concept for all sectors
- Efficiency Plus comprises an integrated project that represents a total investment over three years of €220 million.
- By avoiding processes that create no value (lean production) we were able to improve our operational efficiency by up to 20 percent.
- The Efficiency Plus project has enabled us to save 40 percent of oil, gas and power, whilst at the same time reducing CO2 emissions by a third.
- The basis for this achievement is an integrated energy concept that combines savings in fossil fuels through improved efficiency (on the generation and consumption side) with sensible substitution through renewables.
- A further building block of this concept is the new info centre of the Viessmann academy and training centre which makes a vital contribution to the efficient advanced training of our trading partners and employees.
Political goals for 2020 already achievable today
With this model we have demonstrated clearly that the energy and climate-political goals set to be achieved by the year 2020 can already be achieved today. Almost all measures to improve efficiency and implement substitution on the generation side were achieved with commercially available products made by members of the Viessmann Group.
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