"Efficiency Plus" - our investment for the future

All mankind fundamentally needs a supply of energy. Without it, there would be no light during the dark hours, no hot meals and no protection against the cold of winter. Heat is fundamental to creating a feeling of wellbeing and is a mark of affluence. 

Our hunger for energy is increasing all the time. Today, the world consumes as much energy in a single year as has been created in one million years. However, energy and other raw material reserves are finite. We must deploy these resources efficiently, i.e. sustainably, if we want to preserve the standards of our current quality of life for future generations. 

At the same time, we are shocked by the predictions issued by climate scientists that global warming caused by human activity continues apace, and the climate change following in its wake has serious consequences. Both problems together – the forthcoming shortage of energy and raw materials plus the threat emanating from the climate change – are probably the greatest challenges facing mankind today.
 
However, climate change is no natural event to which we have to succumb without response. Politicians have thrown down an ambitious challenge to combat it – and we can achieve the goals they have set. 

With the sustainability project, Efficiency Plus, we demonstrate in our own facilities the things that any business, municipal authority or household can actively do to promote climate protection and to reduce their own energy bills. 

With Efficiency Plus we clearly demonstrate at our head office in Allendorf that the objectives in respect of global warming set for 2020 can already be achieved using technology that is on the market today. By utilising renewables and by improving energy, material and operational efficiency we not only improve our competitiveness, but also secure this production site. 

Dr. Martin Viessmann

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