Danfoss kicks off COP27 by highlighting the urgent action to address the growing demand for energy. Danfoss President & CEO Kim Fausing says the build-out of renewables will not be even near sufficient if we don’t curb our demand for energy.
A new whitepaper from Danfoss, the Danish family-controlled engineering group, highlights the dramatic increase in global demand for energy and argues that, without urgent action to curb energy demand, the build out of renewables will be insufficient to meet the needs of a growing population.
As world leaders meet in Egypt for the COP27, Danfoss says it wants to offer practical policy recommendations for urgent action that political, corporate and community leaders must consider before, during and after COP27.
Statistics show that the current build out of renewables won’t be even near sufficient if we don’t at the same time curb our demand for energy, referring to the drastic acceleration in demand for cooling in the Global South as a case in point.
According to the President & CEO of Danfoss, Kim Fausing, there is an urgent need for climate leaders to include energy efficiency measures and electrification in their COP27 plans.
Kim Fausing says:
Need for urgent focus on demand side
The whitepaper, titled ‘The neglected demand side of the green equation’, delves into the details of how energy efficiency is an enabler of electrification. To reach net zero, experts agree that we must substitute fossil energy with renewable sources and electrify everything across all sectors.
However, to grow the role of electricity in the energy mix it is a fundamental, yet overlooked, fact that we need to reduce energy demand first. Green energy comes in peaks and is used in peaks. Energy efficiency shaves these peaks and reduces the systemic cost of electrifying.
Still the world’s buildings, infrastructure, transport networks and vehicles continue to operate with great inefficiencies, wasting energy and heat on a grand scale. This new whitepaper tackles this problem head on by providing clear and practical policy recommendations for fixing the currently unbalanced equation, and by highlighting the key data and figures that should inform collective decision making on these issues. For example:
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Kim Fausing says:
“In short, if we don’t curb our demand for energy, the build-out of renewables will not be even near sufficient. We simply will not have enough green energy to meet the demands of a growing population. One overlooked fact is that renewable energy comes in peaks and is used in peaks. Energy efficiency allows us to shave these peaks, for instance by reusing the excess heat from industries, supermarkets and data centers to heat our homes. Energy efficiency is fundamental for a full electrification of our society."
Kim Fausing adds:
“Despite recent encouraging measures being taken in the EU, the current investment levels in energy efficiency are far from enough to meet our global climate goals. Governments have made headlines with mid-century targets but to a large extent failed to implement the immediate solutions we have at hand. As US President Biden said at COP26 in Glasgow last year, the eye of history is watching. It’s time to step up, act and enshrine minimum energy efficiency requirements into law. The greenest energy is the energy you don’t use, but in the current energy crisis, it’s also by far the cheapest, and it’s imperative if we want to meet the Paris Agreement goal.“
For further information please contact:
Amanda Chick, Global PR Lead
Phone: +357 9514 5470
Email: amanda.chick@danfoss.com
