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Ursula Mielicke
Bio: Ursula Mielicke is an academic researcher from Fraunhofer Society. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 21 citations.
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TL;DR: LEEN can be indicated as a policy instrument enabling informed decisions on efficiency measures and supporting their implementation and tailoring the programme to different target groups and aiming at dismantling other barriers directly in addition to tackling information deficits could be undertaken to improve the process.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the factors driving the adoption of energy-efficiency measures by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and find that high investment costs, which are captured by subjective and objective proxies, appear to impede the adoption energy-efficient measures, even if these measures are deemed profitable.
Abstract: This paper empirically investigates the factors driving the adoption of energy-efficiency measures by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our analyses are based on cross-sectional data from SMEs which participated in a German energy audit program between 2008 and 2010. In general, our findings appear robust to alternative model specifications and are consistent with the theoretical and still scarce empirical literature on barriers to energy efficiency in SMEs. More specifically, high investment costs, which are captured by subjective and objective proxies, appear to impede the adoption of energy-efficient measures, even if these measures are deemed profitable. Similarly, we find that lack of capital slows the adoption of energy-efficient measures, primarily for larger investments. Hence, investment subsidies or soft loans (for larger invest-ments) may help accelerating the diffusion of energy-efficiency measures in SMEs. Other barriers were not found to be statistically significant. Finally, our findings provide evidence that the quality of energy audits affects the adoption of energy-efficiency measures. Hence, effective regulation should involve quality standards for energy au-dits, templates for audit reports or mandatory monitoring of energy audits.
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TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which the European and national policies in the selected jurisdictions such as Italy and the UK address energy efficiency in industry and whether there are any measures in place to promote it.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on concepts of energy efficiency and load flexibility and compare the two types of measures with respect to the diffusion of actions taken and possible drivers and barriers affecting uptake, derive recommendations to promote the measures more effectively and synergistically.
47 citations
TL;DR: Novel findings are revealed that can help logistics players streamline operations focused at achieving environmental sustainability performance and that transportation planning and distribution network and, commodity considerations backed by top management support can further environmental performance.
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between measures of sustainable freight transport performance (in the context of mid-sized third-party auto components’ logistics players) with...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used structural equation modeling to test the indirect effect of ISO14001 certification on ecological outcomes involving a large sample of 3633 small and medium sized enterprises from twelve European countries.
37 citations