The research program is aimed for facilitating future economic growth in innovations of new energy-efficiency products and services

1. EFEU Factsheet April 2012
EFEU Program Manager:
Jussi Manninen Ph.D.
Phone: +358 (0)40 535 5947
jussi.manninen@cleen.fi
CLEEN Ltd, Helsinki,
c/o VTT Espoo
P.O.Box 1000, 02044 VTT
FINLAND
efeu
Efficient Energy Use
Efficient Energy Use Program
EFEU research areas
The main objective of the Efficient Energy Use (EFEU) research program is to build knowledge
and competence to enable future economic growth in new energy efficiency product and service
innovations.
EFEU research program is focused on providing methods, tools and technologies to
enable step-wise increase in energy efficiency beyond what can be achieved by constant
improvement and application of Best Available Techniques (BAT), and ultimately to move
economical and technical efficiency boundaries of process and energy systems through
system integration, optimisation and technology development.
The generic target of the EFEU research program is to develop methods and tools to
measure, model, analyse and optimise energy efficiency. The basic idea is to utilise system
level (top-down) approach in different scales instead of optimising individual system
component. The main focus of the program is on energy conversion and distribution, and
process industry. Firstly, the industry is the most significant individual energy end user in
Finland with a share of 47 %. Secondly, energy conversion and distribution is from EU and
larger perspective seen as a major contributor in improving energy efficiency, and new
fuels and concepts are emerging. The developed methods, tools and services for improving
energy efficiency provide participating companies means to improve both the energy
efficiency and the economic efficiency of their products and processes.
Activities
• System energy
efficiency
analysis and
optimization
research
• Research of
integrated
energy efficient
systems
• Research of
energy efficiency
services and
solutions
• Foresight and
disseminination
Expected
results
• Finnish energy
efficiency
expert network
to help
companies in
R&D
• Import of EE
competence to
Finland
• Methods and
ideas to improve
radically EE in
target applications
• New methods
and ideas to
measure, analyze
and optimize EE
• Ideas for new
EE business
concepts
Direct
business
impacts
Company
R&D
Indirect
business
impacts
• New high EE
products
• New EE and
service business
concepts and
ideas
• New methods to
improve
competitiveness
of existing
products and
plants by
increasing EE
• Availability of
EE focused R&D
network
• Availability of
engineers that
understand EE
• New tools for
Motiva
EE = energy efficiency
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Understanding and measuring
energy efficiency
Analysis and optimisation
of complex systems
Technology research
Research of energy efficiency
services and solutions
Foresight and dissemination

2. EFEU Factsheet April 2012
EFEU research themes
Energy chains
Energy services
EFEU Program volume:
12 M€ for 2012-2016
industrial systems
understanding and measuring energy efficiency
metrics
EFEU consortium members
8 Industrial partners
5 Research partners
wp1
analysis and optimisation of complex systems
opportunities
wp2
technology research
wp3
potential
solutions
business model research
wp4
Industrial partners 52%
ABB Oy 16 %, Metso Paper Oy 8 %,
Fortum Power and Heat Oy 7 %,
Gasum Oy 6 %, Helsingin Energia 5 %,
Oy SKF Ab 4 %, Kumera Oy 3 %,
Andritz Oy 3 %
Work Package 1:
System energy efficiency analysis and optimisation
The objective is to develop methods for measuring, analysing and optimising energy
efficiency of systems. With a systems approach the most feasible efficiency improvements
will be identified and sub-optimization will be avoided. The methods are studied and
applied in all research applications of EFEU.
Work Package 2: Integrated energy efficient systems
The technology research of the EFEU program is carried out in WP2. It is focused on the
radical improvement of energy efficiency on the application areas of industrial sites, hybrid
separation systems and fluid handling systems.
Work Package 3: Energy efficiency services and solutions
New business opportunities related to energy efficiency services are in the focus of
WP3, and business models integrated to new technologies will be studied. Design of
collaborative organization models for energy efficiency implementation, especially in b-to-b
context is an integral part of the research.
Work Package 4: Foresight and dissemination
The objective of foresight is to assess how changes in the business environment will
affect the requirements for technology and services. Dissemination activities include cooperation with Motiva and other technology research programs including energy efficiency,
sustainability, and green growth as research themes. EFEU program aims to start and keep
up critical and unbiased discussion on energy efficiency. An important task in short term
is to study the status and future steps of standardisation and regulations related to energy
efficiency.
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Research Partners 48%
Lappeenranta University of Technology 14 %,
Aalto University 12 %,
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 8 %,
Åbo Akademi University 8 %,
Tampere University of Technology 6 %
About CLEEN
The EFEU consortium is managed by CLEEN,
the strategic research centre for energy
and environment. CLEEN Ltd was founded
in 2008. The 44 shareholders are all major
actors in the sector, with 28 corporate
shareholders and 16 research institution or
university shareholders.