Complementarity and Overlapping among Energy Performance Indicators as part of the Sustainable Development and RECP Indicators in Cement Industry

Abstract

The cement industry is one of the most energy intensive of all manufacturing industries. In that respect, saving energy in the cement production process is one of the key elements of sustainability and has equal importance from an environmental and an economic point of view. The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for energy provide a measure on how companies are moving towards a more eco-efficient use of fuels. This paper focuses on investigating energy KPIs developed within different models. In this case, comparison is made between energy KPIs presented as part of the Sustainable Development Indicators and Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) model. The aim of the herein presented work is to determine the complementarities and overlapping among energy performance indicators and their inter-relation with other sets of indicators utilized for measuring contribution towards sustainable development i.e. environmental, economy and social indicators. The attained set of indicators can further be utilized as a pool of indicators relevant for assessing how implementing the RECP model contributes towards increasing energy efficiency of the production process and thus, affects the overall sustainability of the company. The paper argues that the nuclear energy may improve the public trust significantly and at the same time improve the safety record by a much stronger commitment towards the science based decision making in the industry and the regulatory organizations.