The document discusses the Energy Efficiency Future (EFEU) program, which aims to build knowledge and competence in energy efficiency product and service innovations. The program focuses on system-level solutions and involves industrial and research partners. Key research themes include energy efficiency metrics, optimizing industrial processes to minimize waste heat, and developing integrated energy efficient systems. The program expects to impact businesses through new high efficiency products and services, as well as indirect impacts like a stronger energy efficiency network and workforce in Finland.

2. Contents
• Introduction
• Overview of the program
– Vision and objectives
– Partners and budget
– Research themes
– Goals
– Expected impact

4. What we expect to see in the future
• The acceptance of energy use will be based on the added value or service it
provides -> energy efficiency metrics will move towards functional metrics to
emphasise the service function of energy(e.g. kWh/moved liquid volume per
distance, kWh/m2 of information area, kWh of person kept warm)
• System thinking will be widely adopted – fewer possibilities for sub-optimisation
• Systems must be more adaptive to widen the optimal operation envelope (move
from optimum point to optimal region)
• Energy labelling will be applied to energy-intensive equipment (e.g. pumps) and
investment decisions will be based on energy efficiency
• Energy producers are required to assist their customers to increase energy
efficiency
• Energy product acceptance will be based on sustainability of the whole product
chain
• Analogously to materials, used energy streams will be classified in relation to
their re-use and regeneration as well as GHG-reduction potential
• System closure of industrial processes, material reclamation from waste
streams and production of biobased products will increase

5. Vision of EFEU

6. Aim of the program
• Aim of the program is to build knowledge and competence
to enable future growth in energy efficiency product and
service innovations
• Focus is in system level solutions
– Product and unit level efficiency improvement potential is
diminishing
– IP creation potential is still large in system level solutions,
fullfillment of the potential requires extensive co-operation

7. Partners and budget
• Industrial partners
– ABB
– Andritz
– Fortum
– Gasum
– Helsinki Energy
– Kumera
– Metso
– SKF
• Research partners
– Aalto University
– Lappeenranta University of Technology
– Tampere University of Technology
– VTT
– Åbo Akademi
• Funding partner Tekes
• Duration 5 years
• Budget around 12 M€, industry share of costs over 50 %

8. Research themes

9. Work packages

10. Program structure
EFEU
WP4
WP1 WP2 WP3
Energy efficiency Energy efficiency
metrics and Future process services and Assessment of
targets sites with solutions changes in
Energy efficiency minimized waste business
analysis methods heat environment
Energy efficiency Energy efficient
optimisation separation Dissemination
methods systems
Energy efficient
fluid handling
systems

11. Example of research questions - system
energy efficiency analysis and optimisation
Material input
How to estimate the minimum
primary energy input for defined
product or service?
What is the added value of How to measure the service or
energy? product (amount, function,…)?
Energy input System converting Product or service
energy (and materials)
to produce products or
services
How the system boundaries affect results?
How to identify the most promising improvement
Material and energy discharge alternatives?
How define objective(s) and to formulate
optimization problem to handle industrially
What is the potential to minimise discharge? relevant problems?
How to estimate and classify recovery and upgrade
potential?
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12. Expected Impacts
Activities Expected Direct Indirect
• System energy results business business
efficiency • Finnish energy impacts impacts
analysis and efficiency expert • New high EE • Availability of
optimization network to help products EE focused R&D
research companies in R&D • New EE and network
• Research of • Import of EE service business • Availability of
integrated competence to concepts and engineers that
energy efficient Finland ideas understand EE
systems • Methods and Company • New methods to • New tools for
• Research of ideas to improve R&D improve Motiva
energy efficiency radically EE in competitiveness
services and target applications of existing
solutions • New methods and products and
• Foresight and ideas to measure, plants by
dissemination analyze, and increasing EE
optimize EE
• Ideas for new EE
business concepts