Audit Plus Project

The Audit Plus project, financed under European LIFE-CET-22 research framework, will extend over the next 3 years to help energy intensive industries (EII) enhancing their energy efficiency with pilot implementation in Ireland, Spain and Poland and create plans to replicate its learnings into different industrial sectors. The aim of LIFE Audit Plus project is enhancing energy audit schemes in energy intensive industries with practical approaches. The project will support Energy Intensive Industries (EII) with operational groups to provide technical, financial, regulatory and training support to start their energy efficiency journey and accompany them in the implementation of energy efficiency measures to meet EU emission reduction goals. The following objectives have been set: • To establish working groups in 4 different industrial EU regions to understand nowadays gaps and needs to increase the impact of the energy audits performed in EII. • To transform available technical and regulatory knowledge and support tools related to the implementation of energy efficiency measures and/or renewable energy generation into practical know-how for value chain stakeholders. • To reduce energy intensity of industrial processes in the EII involved in LIFE AUDIT-PLUS. • To bring together policymakers, associations, private companies, and technologists to foster new standards and financial schemes to increase the investment in implementing energy efficiency measures identified in energy audit process. The project is coordinated by International Energy Research Centre (IERC), and has five partners: Asociación de Investigación de las Industrias Cerámicas (AICE), Narodowa Agencja Poszanowania Energii SA (NAPE), Fundacion Centro Tecnoloxico de Eficiencia e Sostenibilidade Enerxetica (Energylab), Asociación de Empresas de Eficiencia Energética (A3E) and Lawler Sustainability through an agreement with the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA).