Industrial strategies

Manager: Gilles GUERASSIMOFF

A thesis on diffuse industrial sectors was defended by Gondia SECK on 4 January 2012. She completes CMA’s research, carried out in partnership with the EDF, on industry, a major energy consumer. This thesis, called “Prospective modeling of the diffuse industry to assess the impact of energy control policies from the TIMES model, the recovery of heat with heat pumps in the food-processing industry” was directed by Gilles GUERASSIMOFF. The energy price hike due to the rarefaction of fossil energies and the taking of the impact of the environment into account makes manufacturers’ commitment to an approach to master their energy consumption and emissions inevitable. The Diffuse Industry (DI), as opposed to Energy-Intensive Industries (EII) is increasingly important regarding economics, energy and the environment. It becomes even more a priority target when you observe that it has not been tackled very much in energy analyses despite politicians’ interest regarding energy efficiency and numerous publications on energy. Gondia SECK questioned the way of quantifying the implication of DI in regulatory constraints linked to climate change. What technologies and policies should be implemented to contribute to the objectives fixed by energy efficiency plans of action? His research was based on a technical-economic optimization of the energy chain, from the “bottom-up" TIMES model, in a relevant prospective approach of the energy and environmental consequences of Energy demand management policies in DI. This model is based notably on a representation by uses unlike the EII due to the inadaptability of the product/procedure approach. In this context, he analyzed the value of the heat lost as output in procedures through the deployment of CAP in the food-processing industry. Turning to a prospective modeling notably allows the technological profile and the timing of CAP investments in response to energy constraints or incentives in the context of the Energy Savings Certificate or the value of CO2 emissions to be observed. He also highlights the possibility of studying an incremental adjustment of an emissions tax by regulatory authorities to achieve their environmental and energy objectives in the short, medium and long-term. Finally, he establishes a good decision-support tool by determining the differential costs of energy savings in the context of Energy demand management technology investments for a better sectoral screening.

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