An energy efficiency program for Swedish industrial small- and medium-sized enterprises
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Industrial energy programs such as energy audit programs and Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) are one of the most common means of promoting energy efficiency in industry. As a result of the European Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive from 2006, the Swedish Government Bill proposed a national energy program towards industrial smalland medium-sized enterprises using more than 500 MWh energy annually. The aim of this paper is to present the structure and design of the program, adopted in 2010, the logics in brief behind the structure, as well as an ex-ante evaluation of the program‘s cost-effectiveness. The proposed design primarily includes a subsidized energy audit with some minor LTAelements, such as the need to report results from the energy audit, to present a plan over which measures to conduct, and for a period of three years annually, to present which measures that were implemented. The ex-ante evaluation of the program shows a cost-
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